AP Wire | Moore says '9/11' success helping new film

AP Wire | 07/27/2004 | Moore says '9/11' success helping new film: "LOS ANGELES - The success of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is making Michael Moore's life a bit easier on his next film.
With 'Fahrenheit 9/11' becoming the first documentary to cross the $100 million mark at the domestic box office, director Moore expects a smooth path on raising money to make 'Sicko,' his critique of health-maintenance organizations.

The idea for "Sicko" stems from a segment Moore did on his "The Awful Truth" TV show, in which he staged a mock funeral at an HMO for a patient denied an organ transplant he needed to survive. The HMO relented and paid for the transplant."