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The American people are living in dire straits, as everyone knows.
Americans are not ashamed or ashamed. They always like to expose their wounds to the world, expose corruption, and point out the shortcomings of the times, for fear that the world will not know how miserable they are.
As a Chinese, I disdain this. Yankees are too disrespectful and have no big picture.
Just like Mr. Jiao Da in "A Dream of Red Mansions", what do people not know? The old man and the wife steal the dog and play the chicken every day, climb the ashes, raise the uncle's uncle, and Mr. Jiao Da's heart is clear. It's just that the arm is broken and hidden in the sleeve, pretending to be deaf and dumb.
Of course, Mr. Jiao Da's cultivation is still a little bit worse. Silence is because Jin's skills are not skilled enough. In the end, he didn't catch it.
The United States also has a Jiao Da, named Mike Moore, who is a director.
He made a documentary called "Medical Insider", which exposed the dark side of the medical field in the United States.
It stands to reason that the Americans should open their mouths and give him a few mouthfuls of horse dung for such a "American Jiao Da" who is detrimental to the country's image. Shooting the American Dream reflects positive energy or something.
In fact, Mike Moore not only was not drenched in horse manure, but also won many awards for his documentary "Medical Insider". Like the Best Documentary of the American Society of Film and Television Editors, the Best Documentary of the North American Broadcasting Film Critics Association, the Best Documentary of the New York Film Critics Circle, etc.
If Jiao Daxian lived now, he would definitely want to get a green card and go to the other side of the ocean to curse.
Americans who like to show their wounds are really helpless.
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At the beginning of the documentary, the director exposed his own family scandal: In the United States, nearly 50 million people do not have medical insurance.
Farmer Rick, accidentally cut off two fingertips while doing farm work. One is the middle finger and the other is the ring finger.
Before the operation, the doctor gave him two choices, the middle finger or the ring finger? The middle finger will cost $60,000, and the ring finger will cost $12,000.
After some weighing, Rick chose to take his ring finger and bury his middle finger on a farm in Oregon.
After friends found out, they teased Rick and chose to pick up the ring finger. You are very romantic. Rick said, romantic JB, I have no money!
Rick, who is missing a finger, can no longer give the middle finger to the evil American medical system.
In America, people like Rick without health insurance pray every day not to get sick.
Rick's case was just foreplay.
The documentary "Medical Insider" is not aimed at the 50 million people who do not have medical insurance, but the 250 million people who have medical insurance.
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Larry and Donner are an old husband and wife, Larry is a mechanic, and Donner is a newspaper editor. They love each other and have a well-off family with six children.
Unpredictable circumstances, Larry has a heart attack, Downer has cancer. Although the two have medical insurance, they are just decorations. The insurance company turned out the contract and searched for excerpts, saying that their illness was beyond the scope of claims, and they found various excuses and refused to pay.
After the savings were spent, they had to pack up, move out of the old house, and go to their children because they could not afford the rent.
Americans value independence, and it is not a particularly dignified thing to care about the old or the young. The couple lived under the eaves of their children and were extremely depressed.
This couple's experience is not uncommon in the United States.
When applying for insurance, some people were rejected because they were too thin, and some people were rejected because they were too fat. Medical insurance companies are naturally invincible.
The director posted a post on the Internet, asking who was cheated by the medical insurance company? In less than 24 hours, the mail was like snowflakes, and finally, more than 25,000 people sent their "horror stories" about medical insurance.
The road is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high. If you want to fight wits and courage with unscrupulous companies and win, you have to show a lot of energy.
Mr. Paul was in his early 60s, and his daughter suffered from ear problems. The insurance company was only willing to pay for the hearing aids for half of her ears, and he gave a lot of high-sounding "reasons".
Paul was incensed and said he would provide the director with "materials" for the insurance company's executives to "show their faces" in the film.
The problem was quickly resolved, and the executives were afraid to show their faces.
Confucius said that sixty ears are smooth. In fact, whether the ear is smooth or not has nothing to do with age. Like Mr. Paul, you have to fight for yourself. Otherwise, it is not sixty ears, but sixty ears behind.
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How black is the medical insurance company? Hear what industry insiders have to say.
Linda is a doctor. She confessed that in 1997, I rejected a man's legal claim for missing a life-saving surgery, which resulted in his death. I did this to save $1.5 million for Medicare.
Medical insurance companies have tried their best to defraud customers, calling serious illnesses minor illnesses and minor illnesses no illnesses. To this end, they bribe doctors and refute patients. The higher the refutation rate, the better the bonus.
When the patient becomes ashes, the health status column is still well filled.
In addition to bribing doctors, the medical insurance company also maintains a group of "private detectives" who are specially responsible for nit-picking, finding unfavorable terms for patients from the Yunshan fog cover contract and refusing to settle claims.
Although medical insurance is a paper contract, it is very knowledgeable.
The medical insurance company has a list that says, "If the user suffers from the following conditions, you will not be able to get insurance money." According to the staff, the list is long enough to wrap the entire house.
In the documentary, the director borrowed the opening lines of Star Wars to show this stinky and long list.
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While uncovering the dark side of American medical care, the director also showed the medical situation in other countries.
In Canada, the director deliberately found a hapless man who had four fingers cut off by a machine, and used his experience to slap American medical care.
When this unfortunate man was sent to the hospital, the doctor immediately tried his best to start the treatment, instead of clearly stating the price, telling him how much the thumb was worth and how much the little finger was worth, and then gave him a multiple choice question and asked him where to take it. finger.
Here, the cost of surgery is all paid for by the state, and there is no difference between one or four. Even if you are talented and six-fingered, you don't need to worry.
Some people say that although Canadian medical care is free, it is inefficient.
To this end, the director walked into a crowded waiting room and asked the waiting patients how long they had to wait. The answer is unexpected. In such a crowded environment, it only takes 20 minutes to wait, which is very efficient.
Farewell to Canada, the director moved to England.
In London pharmacies, you can buy any kind of medicine, whether it is for AIDS or cancer, for only $10.
What's even more staggering is that they don't limit the amount of medicine, which means that no matter how much you buy, whether it is a tablet or a bottle, it will only cost you $10.
For teenagers under the age of 16, and seniors over the age of 60, you can get the medicine for free, even saving $10.
In the inpatient department of a British hospital, the director was further stimulated.
A woman received 6 months of paid maternity leave because of her pregnancy. The director asked her, how much will it cost you to give birth in the hospital? Surprised pregnant woman, spend money? You don't have to pay a cent, it's free.
The director continued to ask, at the end of the day, there is always a bill, right? Where is the financial office of the hospital? The other party replied that there is no financial department at all.
The most shocking thing is that the only Cash Office window in this hospital is to pay tolls to patients who want to save money.
With mixed feelings, the director bid farewell to England and came to France again.
In France, when a person falls ill, he just needs to stay at home and call the doctor, which is also completely free.
A French brother had a stomachache and called the medical hotline. After a while, a doctor with a medicine box came to the door.
After the doctor entered the door, he came to the little brother's bedside, looked around, heard inquiries, asked questions with a smile, and knelt down to provide services.
Seeing this, I remembered the faces of some domestic doctors and masters, and couldn't help but shed tears.
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There is a medical system called other people's medical system, just take a look.
At the end of the movie, back to American reality.
An American veteran who was seriously ill after retiring from the front line was unable to receive effective treatment. The medical insurance company made all kinds of excuses, shirk the responsibility, and refused to rescue the emergency.
The sadness is greater than the death of the heart. Facing the camera, the American veterans said, they are waiting for me to die, so as to save an expense. I can't believe that the country I love and pay for will treat me like this.
What "Medical Insider" reveals is not all the facts, and it is inevitably biased.
Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, under the universal free medical care, seem to be paradise on earth, but in fact, high taxes are used to harvest the wealth of the rich in disguise and turn it into the welfare of the people.
Despite this, director Mike Moore still has reason to be angry. After all, as citizens of a big country, we pay a lot of taxes, but what do we get? How can we ensure the safety of our lives?
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