Damaged Care

A true Whistle blower that tells the truth!
Damaged Care is based upon the true-life events surrounding the national health care insurance industry and the corporation Humana. I found the movie VERY informative and undaunting as it “told the story” in an unwavering fashion. This is the kind of story corporations and companies would rather be swept under the rug so to speak. In this film, we watch a wonderful mother and wife work hard within the medical field as a doctor and transition into the medical insurance industry as claims specialists. After a while, she begins to encounter rather unscrupulous things including unethical behavior and horrible attitudes regarding patients and their overall health. Taking care of the “bottom line” became more important than taking care of the patient. Here in this corporate environment, upper levels of management were pressuring the good doctor to bow to the demands to keep the bottom line in line. Finally, as any good person with a conscience would probably wind up doing, this doctor can not bear to stomach the environment any longer as it violates her conscience and deep personal values of taking care of patients first! Soon she finds herself in moral dilemmas that absolutely can no longer be ignored while at the same time experiencing conflicts in her own home. The road for her was long and eventually, she finds herself standing before a Congressional Subcommittee testifying as a “Whistleblower.” Great movie! Loved it!

Not necessarily the truth and the whole truth about all players in the health or HMO field
I accepted the problems presented by such organizations as Humana which is stereotyped as the business model of health insurers. I was quite disturbed when they cooked up, that is my conclusion, a deplorable incident, involving my HMO, Kaiser Permanente. As a long long time member os Kaiser HMO, they are not in the same category as distant insurers. They are run by MDs who are paid a fee and are not penalized for ordering necessary tests and procedures. And my plan and all Kaiser plans that I am aware of let patients go to any ER and will then reimburse the cost to the ER. So this part should not be accepted as more than fiction. Laura Dern gives the part of the doctor her usual charm and skill. The nasty MD suit types are a little over the top however. It is not in my opinion a fair depiction of all insurers and the doctors who work at them either. But as a docudrama it is worth a look see on a rainy night when nothing else is there to watch.

Hippocratic Oath Movie
I like this movie because it depicts human nature as well as corporate greed vs. healthcare. This movie came out before Sicko, and is about a real life woman whom was faced with moral & ethical dilemmas all while trying to balance her families financial well being as well as being a responsible mom to her kids. This movie shows the grey areas of how choosing to do the right thing isn’t quite as simple as some think it is, while also showing how to start doing the right thing in order to be a better role model for others. In turn seeing the consequences of how doing the right thing can also have negative repercussions.

True story.
True story, sad reality