07-10-2007, 03:31 AM
I thought it was excellent. A large part of it was about how HMOs try not to treat people to save money. My father's experience at Kaiser (CA, not HI) was such that he was misdiagnosed in 6 interactions with their physicians in two weeks after having a minor stroke. They told him he had vertigo and gave him anti-nausea meds when they could have given him a treatment that had 90% success and preventing another brain stem stroke. Then he had a massive one and died 2 years later after being horribly disabled in the meantime. I agree that it is morally wrong to actively try to keep people from getting care to maximize profits. Care becomes the main priority in non-profit health systems in other countries. The movie will make you ashmaed that we have all let this go on for so long while every other country in Western Europe addressed these problems years ago.
Go see it if you can.
Go see it if you can.