Kudos to Julie.

From Crooks and Liars:

ABC News, the same network that neo-cons use to further their agenda, decided to look at the question of Universal Health Care in the US. Who better to investigate it than John “The Free Market Trumps All” Stossel? As is evident from the promo from last Friday’s Good Morning America, Stossel’s program looks like little more than a way to demonize Michael Moore:

And the actual program was just more of the same: ridiculing Moore and touting the excellence that competition and profits bring our healthcare system.

Julie Pierce, whose husband was sentenced to death by their insurance company and featured in Michael Moore’s documentary, Sicko, decided she had to respond to Stossel. We’ve documented Stossel’s bottom feeding, tabloid style “journalism” in the past, from denying global warming to getting smacked down by a professional wrestler, his resume is beyond lame. Kudos to Julie for calling this clown out for his hackery…

Via MichaelMoore.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.