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Moore Lobbies Health Care Lobbyists

ABC News

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: In his latest gambit to draw attention to Sicko, his forthcoming documentary about the nation's health-care system, Michael Moore is holding a screening for registered health-care lobbyists.

Over the next five days, ads will run in The Washington Post, Roll Call, The Hill, and Politico listing all of the registered health-care lobbyists in Washington, D.C., and inviting them (so long as they bring the ad as their ticket) to a special screening.

Moore plans to set up a web cam at the lobbyist screening so that the public can see how many lobbyists -- if any -- actually show up.

Asked if Moore actually expects lobbyists to show up at the "exclusive" 4:00 pm ET screening being held for them on June 20 at the Union Station theaters in Washington, D.C., Sicko spokesperson Chris Lehane acknowledged that it was a long-shot while adding that Moore is still hoping that the film provides them with "their Paul on the road to Damascus moment when they are able to see the real-life consequences of a broken health-care system."

The scores of names in Moore's ad were generated, according to Lehane, by the Center for Responsive Politics and refer to individuals who were registered as health-care lobbyists in 2006.

In addition to the screening that he is staging for health-care lobbyists, Moore is also planning to pressure the 2008 White House hopefuls.

When Moore joins the Democratic presidential candidates at next week's gathering of liberal activists sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future, he plans to urge them to back universal health-care coverage, get rid of for-profit health insurance, and regulate the drug industry like a utility.