I am very anxious to see this movie. As a former employee of United HealthCare, I am well aware of how screwed the insurance industry is. We (as new employees) were told that doctors contracted with United HealthCare received "bonuses" for not sending patients for expensive tests, such as MRI's and CT scans. If you need one of these tests, your best bet is to go early in the year, so your doctor will still have an allowance of tests available and will not be jepordizing their bonus. Also, I could never understand how United HealthCare paid $3.25 for a strep throat culture, when an average person without any medical insurance will pay between $40-$80 for the exact same test. (at least around here, in NC) They call it contracted rates, and you can see these on your EOB's. They usually start with a billed amount, which is reduced to the contracted rate, which insured people pay a portion of. This applies for all procedures, so on a larger scale, an uninsured person may pay $1000-$1500 for a MRI, and insurance companies get off with paying a fraction of it. I think this practice should be illegal, and everyone should be billed the exact same rate, whether insured or not. Many like to refer to the US as "the best country in the world" but we have people in ER's being walked over and ignored to the point of death. (King Harbor Hospital, in LA) When my sister had meningitis, (also life threatening) she had to wait over 8 HOURS to be seen in a small town hospital. There could not have been so many emergencies to warrant such a long wait. A friend of mine's spouse, who is from Germany, recently flew there to have dental procedures done, as it cost him less for the procedure there, and his international plane ticket than it would have to have it done here. This is just past the point of ridiculous. If other countries can have universal healthcare, I just don't see how or why it can not be done here. I hear congress has a great health care plan--do I have to run for office to get some good coverage? This is why I support Barack Obama, as I think he has the best ideas about how to make sure everyone has medical coverage. The issue goes even deeper when you have people that actually do have a medical insurance plan, but the plan is very expensive, and they don't even have good coverage. It pained me to have to tell people that they could not have a life saving treatment because it was not covered in their plan, and their state did not legally mandate that it be covered. Ironically, Texas is the best state for medical coverage. United HealthCare was frequently annoyed by some new bill that passed there, which required them to pay for some treatment they did not want to. In my opinion, the whole medical industry is sick, and in need of more than antibiotics to cure it.