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...decades the private insurers have fanned the crisis by blithely reimbursing the fees of greedy practitioners and expansionary hospitals. Then, as costs rise, the private insurers seek to shed the poorest and the sickest customers, who get priced out or summarily dropped. For some companies, a serious and costly illness is a good enough reason to cancel a policy. Others refuse to insure anybody who might be gay and hence, actuarially speaking, might get AIDS...
...control measures follow. But because government can only attempt to control the costs of its own programs, the providers of care simply shift their costs onto the bills of privately insured patients. Faced with ever rising costs, the private insurers become more determined to shed the poorest and the sickest . . . and so the cycle goes...
...patients who can't afford private care go to D.C. General. The patients other hospitals are loathe to take--for example, intravenous drug users with AIDS--go to D.C. General. On a routine basis, these hospitals ship indigent patients, often, some of their sickest, to D.C. General...
WHAT killed Patricia Jones was much more than medical neglect. The doctors and nurses I observed at D.C. General worked in the worst of circumstances with the sickest patients, but they did so with the most dedication and courage of any group that I have ever observed. Ironically, that group will likely get blamed for the one occasion when they failed to perform a superhuman feat...
...Henry (played with hollow-eyed precision by Michael Rooker), murder is a vocation. He is compelled to do it and does it well, but the job gives him little pleasure. Only his friend Otis (Tom Towles) feels the thrill of the kill. Otis is the sickest person in the movie; he takes to torture like a born-again sadist. Only his sweet sister Becky (Tracy Arnold) has much hope of touching poor Henry. She will be his best hope or his last victim...