Going Hollywood with Patient Rights in Managed Care
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-3-1999
ISSN
0098-7484
Publisher
American Medical Association
Language
en-US
Abstract
The backlash against managed care has entered Hollywood. In the movie As Good As It Gets, audiences applaud when actress Helen Hunt uses obscenities to describe the health maintenance organization that treated her son. Moviegoers also cheer actor Warren Beatty, the suddenly truthful Senator in Bullworth, who accuses the health insurance industry of profiteering, deliberately excluding the poor, and corrupting politicians. When Hollywood distributes celluloid attacks on an entire industry, it relies on widespread public sympathy with the sentiments expressed.
Recommended Citation
Wendy K. Mariner,
Going Hollywood with Patient Rights in Managed Care
,
in
281
Journal of the American Medical Association
861
(1999).
Available at:
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.281.9.861-JMS0303-6-1
