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Damaged Care | 
| Director: Harry Winer
Actors: Laura Dern, James Legros, Suki Kaiser, Michelle Clunie, Adam Arkin
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 59989
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: PARD803824D
ISBN: 0792187822
UPC: 097368038240
EAN: 9780792187820
ASIN: B00006RCNB
Theatrical Release Date: May 26, 2002
Release Date: December 10, 2002
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Product Description
The true story of one womans quest to bring justice to people by battling big business and the insurance companies. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/06/2004 Starring: Laura Dern Henry O. Watson Run time: 114 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Harry Winer
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 Great film.. April 3, 2009
Khaled Altaher (Riyadh, NA Saudi Arabia)
Dr. Linda Peeno, a Medical reviewer, used to work in two insurance companies that totally exploited the insurance requests they received from hospitals by denying payment for patients with expensive procedures. Linda could not bear the unethical actions and decisions taken by these companies, quits working for them and decides to start a campaign to unveil their dirty work.
This movie reminded me of the documentary "Sicko", that also unveiled the dirty work of many insurance companies. I can't imagine that a company would deny payment for someone that needs a life or death procedure, just to save money! But there are certainly lots of greedy people with decision manking power out there.
Excellent film, that is actually based on a true story.
An unusual film! July 25, 2005
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This picture is a little gem. It hasn't special effects; there are not technological advances, and in this sense you could say this is an old fashioned work. And nowadays that's by itself, signifies something.
The story deals about the ethic deficit in which the world is immersed. Is the health susceptible to be considered another market service by itself? Or perhaps if the goal of any enterprise related with such delicate subject as the public health is reduced to a double statement: maximum benefits and reduction of costs?
Laura Dern makes a convincing portrait of a doctor who is incapable to understand the mechanism of the actual state of things and decides to act like a voice in the desert. She is not convinced about certain rational decisions permeated of the sweet smell of the success: Somerset Maugham stated once: "In times of hypocrisy, the sincerity is considered as cynicism". So our lonely character seems to have chosen the most difficult way: she argues and refuses what in her ethic is out of context and becomes immediately in "The enemy of the people" .
She renounces to her two previous jobs due serious painful cases that simply don't follow the established rules.
Passionate script, that will leave you thinking for a long, long time.
This movie means to Laura Dern her best artistic achievement to date.
"If we do the things just for believing that other person expects we do it, and he or she expects because he believes it that we expect that he expects it, we'll finish doing everything what nobody wants to do, which it is a ridicule way of proceeding" Georges Bernard Shaw
Excellent August 3, 2004
J. McAndrew (USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excellent movie, gives one an interesting view of the insurance industry and the value the companies see in human life.
5* Movie With An Ethical Message on HMO's. April 9, 2004
Karen McDonald Patonai (Pleasanton, CA United States)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excellent Film! Told the sad truth about corporate greed, exploitation of US Managed Care, HMO system for corporate profit. Unethical deneial of critical medical services to patients. Highly recommend this film. Laura Dern deserves ***** for this movie. Showtime and Pamouunt Network Television deserve ***** for making this film.
5 star movie October 15, 2003
Elizabeth Bell (Abingdon, MD USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Peeno is a physician and a renowned critic of the way US health maintenance organizations boost profits by depriving patients of care. She has provided evidence for American patients suing HMOs; testified to the US congress; and spoken to the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada.Having had my own personal horror of the HMO system. This movie cuts right to my heart. A doctor inform with a heart transplant he was sure he could have saved my mom's life. Her HMO, refused to approved the claim...6 mths later she died. And it saddened me for some to call it a chick flick. To look down on Peeno stating it took her long enought to come forward....but,the bottom line is.... she did... how many others have had the courage to do so? I salute you, your voice and your movie Dr.Linda Peeno.
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