Posted on 03/16/2010 3:48:05 PM PDT by Trafalgar123
Does anybody remember John Q, a 2002 melodrama that starred Denzel Washington as a loving father driven mad by his insurance companys refusal to pay for his sons heart transplant? Faced with his sons imminent death, Denzel seizes his only option: taking the hospital emergency room hostage until doctors agree to perform the operation.
The movie portrays Denzel sympathetically as the victim of greedy insurance companies and openly pleads for national health insurance. But what happens when its the government whos refusing your son or mother or wife the heart transplant? What happens when its the friendly Congressman in your local diner whose vote resulted in the health care rationing thats killing someone you love? What do you do when you see your Senator at the State Fair and know that his vote put your father in his coffin? What then?
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OH, but the single payer system is only the first step.
Once we have a single payer system where the death panel decides when it is too expensive to keep you alive in place, them will come the campaign of It isnt fair that some can afford to go off shore to get health care.
Eventually it will be illegal to leave the country for health care that was refused to you here. We must all suffer equally.
They will never have control of my body or any of my family. I will resist forever.
Maybe some ideas for right now low-budget indie films.
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