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Old 11-14-2008, 11:03 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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I wouldn't say that movie is true. It's based on real concerns but I suspect that the plot was driven by dramatic concerns more than truth.

I don't know that a child has ever been refused a heart transplant, or something such as that, by an HMO. Although there have been allegation as to that. My example in my first post was just off the top of my head and intended to illustrate the extreme end of the consequences of our health care system albeit with a bit of hyperbole.

There is another film on Showtime, I think, that was released around the same time as John Q called "Damaged Care". I've never seen it but there might be something similar in it.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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