People have been complaining about the high cost of medical care in our country, but ignore one fact:
As a result of the increasing number of medical disputes, the proportion of medical practitioners in this country is experiencing a potential fault crisis.
Doctors have now become a high-risk profession in China, and the profession that was originally life-saving has become a business. The patient's family seems to treat their own doctors as an irreversible transaction, in line with the idea of "I pay you must grasp the cure", many doctors have become the living target of the patient's family after the medical accident.
However, people are not machines, no one can guarantee 100% recovery for seriously ill patients, doctors are not gods, they are also people.
The Lancet, an authoritative journal in the medical field, once did a survey, and the report showed that nearly 90% of Chinese graduates would not enter the doctorial profession after completing medical school. At the same time, China's industry white paper also shows that China is likely to face the dilemma of no successor in the medical industry.
So some people lamented that it is still good abroad, there is medical insurance, and citizens can enjoy free treatment without paying.
Is this really the case?
I'm afraid you don't know what the health care system looks like abroad.
Taking the United States as an example, in the United States, all American citizens of Nabao can enjoy a certain quality of medical services, but here we have to figure out two things: 1. The more insurance in the United States, the more you pay, the more you can enjoy higher levels of social welfare; 2. There are not many medical personnel in the United States, and good medical resources are mostly concentrated in private for-profit hospitals.
This means that if you want to look after a doctor, the price is naturally not cheap.
Like ordinary Chinese people, not everyone in the United States has so much money, so when a serious illness strikes, what do they do?
The American father introduced to you today was forced by the Us insurance and medical system to rely on suicide to fight for his son's heart replacement surgery, you can make a reference.
"Imminent"
John Q
Looking at the title alone, you would never have imagined that this is a film that reflects the problem of health care in the United States. For this reason, it is often classified as "the best film delayed by the title".
On Douban, the movie got a high score of 8.5.
Interestingly, however, Rotten Tomatoes has earned the title of "bad film" - the film only scored a pitiful 4.4.
Let's see what foreigners say about this movie.
Some people think that the film conveys a very dangerous idea to the audience in a very dangerous way:
"I have difficulties, and others have to suffer with me."
"Seemingly sentimental but pretentious fake orgasm"
Some domestic viewers also expressed similar views.
Putting these negative reviews aside, let me take you through the synopsis of the movie.
"Imminent" focuses on a typical American blue-collar family. The protagonist of the story, John, is a human being, and he can't earn a few dollars working hard in the factory, but fortunately, the family relationship is still harmonious.
However, because of his meager income, John would occasionally worry about not being able to repay the bank loan.
The days were lived like this, until one day, bad luck befell the family.
Once, John's son fainted on the field due to a sudden accident, and although he was rescued by the hospital, he saved his life. But the doctor told him: Your son has to have surgery.
It turned out that John's son's heart had been overloaded for a long time due to a birth defect, which caused his blood pumping function to lose and fall into a coma.
Turner, the head of the cardiology department, told John that in order for his son to wake up from his coma, he would have to undergo heart replacement surgery.
How much does the surgery cost?
250,000, USD.
Even at the current exchange rate, it will cost about 1.5 million yuan to convert it into RMB.
The hospital informed John that his son's condition could be prioritized at the top of the transplant list, but only if the surgery fee could be paid.
At first, John thought that the insurance he had given to his son might offset most of the expenses.
But in fact, his insurance amount was too low, so that major expenses such as transplant surgery were not included in the coverage.
In desperation, John and his wife could only raise money for their son's surgery by applying for relief funds and selling their property.
But even so, it is still a drop in the bucket.
The cost of surgery is delayed, but beds in private hospitals are as precious as gold. You don't have surgery, and there are people in line behind you. It wasn't long before John was ultimatumed to the hospital to send his son home to die.
Not only did the hospital issue an ultimatum, but his wife also anxiously urged John to quickly settle the cost of the operation.
Cornered, John decides to take the plunge – he tries to kidnap the cardiology director and force him to operate on his son as soon as possible.
After taking the director to the emergency room, the rest of the room also became John's hostages.
The consequences of this behavior will naturally attract attention from the outside world.
Not long after the kidnapping of the doctor, the two were surrounded by people outside the door of the emergency room where they were located.
There are melon-eating masses and the media who watch the hilarity and do not think that things are noisy, and there are police officers who rush to actively rescue the hostages.
John offered the police a condition for the release of the hostages: as long as I agreed to save my child, I would release the hostage unconditionally.
While waiting for a reply from the police to himself, John exchanged his kindness for the hostage's trust.
During small talk with everyone, he learned about the gray deals that existed between hospitals and insurance companies.
Someone told John that the reason why his son had such a serious health condition was that the hospital had received red envelopes from the insurance company and did not do a comprehensive and thorough examination of the newborn.
As a result, even if families insure their children in the same amount, they may not be guaranteed adequate compensation – because from the beginning, they are likely to be told that their children are healthy.
This is also the core point of the film, and the criticism of medical policy makes the film's discussion in this area seem very practical.
As the buddy above said: In the emergency room, if you don't have money, you have no choice but to be treated haphazardly and kicked out of the hospital.
Who told you you didn't have any money?
In the operating logic of the market economy, everything is about cost, and the same is true for the medical industry. In highly competitive private hospitals, hospitals not only have to meet the basic needs of doctors to support their families, but also be good at tapping into the front line to increase their awareness in the industry, which is naturally behind the capital investment.
Why get cutting-edge talent to work at your hospital? Money.
So when Mr. and Mrs. John questioned the hospital's money in the eyes, in the face of the hospital's response, you have to admit that what they said is also the truth.
What facts? Private hospitals are self-sufficient, that's the truth.
However, in this game of capital, the poor are not destined to become winners.
The problems reflected in "Imminent" are even more cruel in reality.
During Obama's tenure, he introduced a health care law designed to help people with low insurance or no insurance get more relief.
But another core problem with the plan is that he intends to re-privatize the already highly marketized healthcare industry from privatization to public ownership, which is bound to offend the interests of vested interests and young (or healthy) taxpayers.
So not long after Trump took office, this original plan was forced to stop. Everything is back to its original state.
Trump's businessman mentality, and the chaebol forces behind him, are unlikely to allow this plan to survive for a long time to deprive himself of the long-established network of interests.
Private property stimulates the enthusiasm of capitalists for work, but the question is, what about the sick poor?
The rich set the rules of the game, and the poor can only play by the rules in this set of rules. And those who can't afford to play can only be tragically out.
That's why a lot of people don't like the movie ending. Because at the end of the film, John not only successfully helped his son get a place in surgery, but also received a two-year sentence that can be said to be kindergarten level.
The film, which takes into account the moral concerns of most viewers without completely denying John's efforts for his loved ones, is arguably the true theme of Hollywood.
Admittedly, John's actions were underconsidered.
Although his handling is not legal, does he have a choice?
You can see that what led John to the extreme path was the system that left him without a choice. In this system, you either give money or admit it.
In the end, high medical expenses and the hospital's mercenary approach forced John to Liangshan. In order to let his son get a matching heart, he even used kidnapping and suicide (so that his heart could be replaced by his son's) to save his son's dying life.
Isn't this a tragedy worth pondering?
There is nothing wrong with blaming John on a moral level, but it is not a hypocrisy of standing and talking without waist pain. I would like to ask, when a person cannot guarantee the survival of the system, what reason does he have to believe in the rationality of the system?
Blame yourself for being lazy? Blame yourself for not being competent? Sorry, not everyone is a local tycoon sitting on tens of millions of dollars of property. Of course, you can also say that no one should pay for his poverty.
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When I was talking to you about Miracle Boy before, I remember saying that the terrible consequences of human beings' lack of empathy are terrible. John's story, on the other hand, is a rejection and despair of a system.
Although the film gives the John family a relatively bright ending, we all know that reality is far more cruel than in the movie.
You can disagree with his approach, but at least, don't belittle the heart of a father who does not hesitate to commit suicide to save his children.