Sunday, September 21, 2008

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The movie “JOHN Q” the American citizine insurance policy about patients not being covered by the health maintenance organization and also a protest against hidden procedures of many of today’s insurance companies. This is for that the agreement covers only the professional services which are only the doctors who have agreed with the contract...... the expenses and asked by the hospital to have their payments in cash. The surgery will cost $250,000 and for his son to be put on top of the list doThe movie is all about with a man whose name is John Q. Archibald and his son whose been diagnosed with a heart enlargement and finds out that his son cannot have a transplant because of HMO will not cover nors will cost $75,000. John was just an average man who works for a factory and his wife works on a supermarket, unfortunately they cannot afford to have their son be cured so but still John is eager to raise money for his son. He sold almost all of his stuffs and even asked money to some of his friends. But one day the doctors decided to release his son from the hospital because of him not able to provide further more financial needs. He had no choice but to take the doctor and the rest of the employees of the hospital as a hostages on a Saturday morning. All he want is to have his son’s name on the donor’s list and then he will surrender, but still the police was trying to not to give the John’s request and also tried to assassinate him. The assassination was not successful and john realizes that the police wanted him dead so he decided to bring his son to same hospital with him and have his heart to be transplanted to his son. At a very sudden the hospital decided to put his son on the donor’s list in good faith. And a lady died because of a car accident and has the same heart as his son’s. John was almost to trigger the gun to his head then suddenly someone called in saying that they already have the heart for his son and will do the surgery in good faith. Everything was in a nick of time and both John and his son survived. John was guilty of hostage and was imprisoned. The movie was so great that it was able to criticize such system trough a drama type of life story. And it also inspire many politiciance to have a protest against this selfish system.

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