:00:00
What I don't understand is why
they never found it, the doctors.
:00:03
My son has had clean checkups
every year since the day he was born.
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- How could the doctors not pick it up?
- He might not have been tested enough.
:00:11
Why not?
:00:15
You got an HMO, right?
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There's your answer.
:00:19
HMOs pay their doctors not to test.
It's their way of keeping costs down.
:00:24
Say Mike did need additional testing
and insurance says they won't cover them.
:00:28
The doctor keeps his mouth shut,
and come Christmas,
:00:31
the HMO sends the doctor
a fat-ass bonus cheque.
:00:34
- Is that true?
- Possible. Not likely, but possible.
:00:39
These doctors may have known
what was wrong with my son,
:00:42
and they could have
treated him all along?
:00:44
- Who knows? I don't know.
- Don't take this personal, Doc.
:00:48
- You're a bunch of crooks.
- You don't know what you're talking about.
:00:51
- What about that thing you take?
- The thing?
:00:54
That promise.
:00:56
- It's called the Hippocratic Oath.
- More like the hypocritical oath.
:00:59
How's it go, Doc?
:01:01
"I solemnly swear to take care
of the sick and damn-near-dying,
:01:04
unless they ain't got major medical."
:01:06
- Something like that?
- You've got it perfectly.
:01:09
It's funny, but it's not far from the truth.
This shit happens all the time.
:01:13
Paramedics bring in
some accident victim.
:01:15
When the boys in Accounting find out
they can't pay, they send them packing.
:01:19
- Hospitals can't turn people away.
- Isn't there laws against that?
:01:21
There's also ways around those laws.
We have to stabilise them.
:01:25
After that, we're off the hook.
:01:27
- That's not how it works.
- That's exactly how it works.
:01:30
Maybe not on the fifth floor,
but in here if you don't have money,
:01:33
you get a Band-Aid, a foot in the ass,
and you're out the door.
:01:36
Enough already. I've heard all the bitching
and moaning I can stand for one day.
:01:40
If you all want to regard me as some kind
of blood-sucking vampire, great.
:01:44
I'll be the bad guy.
But who's holding the fucking gun?
:01:56
Sir? Lieutenant!