Stossel is making news today and as usual, it is for his horrific record when it comes to attempting to be a journalist. He wrote an article on Michael Moore's movie and one story in particular that was highlighted in the film. That is the tragedy that befell the Pierce family. Julie's husband Tracy died from cancer when a bone marrow transplant would have saved his life. Instead of him being a husband and father today, he died because his insurance carrier denied him the surgery. It is one of many sad stories that Stossel calls "Sick Sob Stories." They aren't sick John, you are, you heartless piece of shit.
From Michael Moore.com:
Dear John,
My name is Julie Pierce. My husband was Tracy Pierce. I am featured in Michael Moore's documentary 'SiCKO.' In the movie, I share my deceased husband's story — his unsuccessful battle with our insurance company to receive what could have been life-saving treatments for kidney cancer.
I just read your Wall Street Journal article written on Sept. 13, 2007, titled "Sick Sob Stories." You begin by talking about Tracy's role in 'SiCKO,' and claim the bone marrow transplant denied by our insurer would not have saved him. You also accuse me of "sneering" over our situation.
In your 'reporting' of this story, you did not contact me, and you did not contact my husband's doctors. I cannot believe that a publication like the Wall Street Journal would print such an accusation without talking to anyone involved — especially in such a personal matter, which resulted in the death of my 37-year-old husband and the father of my child.
If you had contacted me, I would have told you that bone marrow transplants became a last option, only after our insurer denied many other treatments again and again and again.
I would have shown you a letter from our doctors at the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the University of Kansas Hospital, in which they argued strongly for the bone marrow transplant, citing "strong evidence" supporting the past success of that treatment — they wrote that it could "give him a chance to achieve complete remission." In fact, they called the bone marrow transplant "his only chance of survival."
Tracy and so many others could have been saved by this procedure, yet Stossel weakly tries to defend his friends in the Health Insurance industry. He believes in a "free market" so much that he does not care who gets hurt. On top of that, he never contacted Julie or Tracy's doctors to research his stories. Like other conservatives, he cherry picks certain "facts" that prove his invalid points. How the Wall Street Journal printed that....and ABC still carries his ugly face on their network is outrageous.
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