Filmmaker Moore, nurses rally for health-care bill

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Nearly a thousand nurses, some from as far away as Massachusetts, descended on the Capitol today to join filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore to push for guaranteed health care.
Members of the California Nurses Association swarmed the west steps of the Capitol to urge passage of Senate Bill 840, sponsored by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Barbara, which seeks to provide every Californian with affordable health care.
"There is no room for the concept of profits when taking care of people when they are sick," he said. He asked the crowd: "What kind of sick, cruel system is this?"
"The insurance companies are the problem, " said Rose Ann DeMoro, the executive director of CNA, at the briefing. She held the companies responsible for what she called "terrible atrocities."
The hearing was broadcast on large-screen TVs in tents pitched outside the west steps of the Capitol.
Several interview subjects died before the film was completed. "It was pretty somber working on this film," Moore said.

Transcript here: http://www.calchannel.com/MEDIA/0612E.asx