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Does anybody remember John Q, a 2002 melodrama that starred Denzel Washington as a loving father driven mad by his insurance company’s refusal to pay for his son’s heart transplant? Faced with his son’s 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 it’s the government who’s refusing your son – or mother – or wife – the heart transplant? What happens when it’s the friendly...

I watched the movie "John Q" today and am wondering what others that have seen it thought of this movie. It was a very emotional movie, a real tear jerker that would make anyones throat get a lump in it. It was a good movie, but it was political propaganda. Towards the end their was up to date clippings on news and commentators. Complete with Bill Maher/Hillary Clinton et al saying THE ONLY solutuion to the medical insurance issues that happen daily in our country---causing the young and the old to die waiting for an organ transplant; because insurance won't...