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Michael Moore?s latest movie ?Sicko? should be a wake-up call for insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry as well as the AMA. The movie starts out showing exactly what can occur to working class Americans without medical health insurance, citing the storyline of your man who cut off the tip of two fingers in the work accident. Because he had no insurance and would be paying cash, he was given a choice of having one fingertip replaced for $12,000 or even the other for $60,000. What kind of choice could that often be? Of course, he chose to save the less costly of the two. The movie went on to exhibit the fate of a couple who had worked each of their life, bought insurance through their employers. Three cardiac arrest along with a bout of cancer left the couple bankrupt and virtually homeless despite their insurance coverage. '10 February. The Peregrine flew north across the valley. He was half miles away, but I could see the brown and black of his wings, the shining gold of his back. The pale cream of his tail coverts looked like a band of straw twisted across the base of his tail. Thinking he'd return downwind, I went into fields with the river to watch for him. I stood in the lee of the hawthorn hedge, looking through it on the north, sheltered in the bitter wind'