John Q

The movie John Q is about the issues with health care in America. This movie follows a hard working man and his family. John (the main character) has a son who is diagnosed with a heart condition after collapsing at a baseball game. In need of a heart transplant, the boy is unable to qualify for the transplant list because the family's HMO would not cover it. John in a moment of crisis creates a hostage situation at the hospital demanding his son be put on the list. This shows how many people fall through cracks in the American health care system. For this little boy it was a necessary sugary in order for him to live and initially he was unable to receive it due to the fact that insurance would not cover it. This is wrong! We have pretty advanced medical technology but if something is not done about our health care system that will not matter. We do not have the exact answer to what to do about the health care system but something needs to be done.
- DFB