SAW PART 6 - A HATCHET JOB ON THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

WIth the local football team playing an away game, I took my my son up on an offer to head to the movies and catch the latest chapter in the "Saw" movie marathon. Seemed appropriate enough for a soggy & cold friday evening.

Unless you have seen each of the previous 5 movies, it is hard to follow the plot and understand the horror behind all the gore and self mutilations. From what I know about the movie, it seems that the central character, "Jigsaw" has a vendetta against those that squander away their lives by way of drug abuse, immoral bevaior such as prostitution, stealing, cheating, and so on. After receiving a refresher on the previous 5 movies from my son, I was ready to watch.

Amongst those that "Jigsaw" put a bulls eye on this time around, were Executives of the Healthcare Industry and mortgage reps who provided risky loans to people who had no means to pay them back.

The entire movie centered around how to enact retribution to the evil insurance & Mortgage Loan industry employees at these companies that are somehow making decisions on whether people should live or die or go bankrupt.

The producers of this movie took many liberties to portray Insurance company execs as cold and ruthless number crunchers whose only interest on insuring anyone, was that they make a profit on them. They employed complicated statiscal permutations based on age and prior medical history to come up with a profitability factor.

In one scene, a middle aged man is seen begging to a company exec to continue his coverage after the company dropped it because of a pre-existing condition that was over thirty years old. Afte making payments for over ten years without a claim, the man pleads to the exec that he would die if his coverage is dropped, and as it turns out, he does.

Another scene shows a group of insurance agents solely dedicated to finding errors on insurance applications that would disqualify potential applicants, They can be heard bragging about their success rate of a 70% rejection rate.

The movie also touches upon a "Death Panel" situation where it is decided that by denying a certain type of treatment to an elderly patient the company would save over 200K in insurance payouts.

In Hollywood's warped world, these people become the next target of "JigSaw". The head of one of the biggest insurance companies is forced make decisions about which one of his employees deserves to live or die in order to secure his own existence.

He must make choices about keeping alive his single young male assistant or an older married female with a family and long career. He is tasked with choosing only 2 of 6 from his team of insurance application denyers. He must choose between his office love interest or the family of the man he denied coverage to and ultimately died. All the while he must witness the horrific deaths of those that are not chosen or worthy of living.

In the ending scene, the Insurance Exec is almost home free. After going through an obstacle course of death traps and witnessing the carnage left behind as a result of his decisions, he is confronted by the family of the man who was denied coverage and ultimately died.

He somehow manages to talk the wife out of sparing his life but the son cannot forgive him and thus winds up exacting justice by pouring Hydro chloric Acid on the Exec.

The message from Hollywood Libs, the Insurance companies are the bad guys.

This is Hollywood and in their kooky world, art imitates life. First it was Michael MooreMichael Moore and his horror film, Capitalism and now this. What's next? A movie where all Tea Party Protestors are hunted down by Aliens from another planet?

For those Saw movie fanatics, you can rest assured that there will plenty of more episodes if and when the Government takes over our healthcare sysytem, "JigSaw' will have plenty of targets to go after.