Under Our Skin: This is one of the most interesting films I think I’ve ever seen. It put the finger directly on what is really wrong with our system of healthcare, and who is really pulling the strings. I caught it on PBS last night. It didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know based on my practice as a trial lawyer and dealing with both the insurance industry and the medical industry. But I don’t think anything I say can make the point as clear as this movie makes it.

Where you can see Under Our Skin:
Official Website: http://www.underourskin.com/
This is a link to the TV schedule (when it is supposed to air): http://www.underourskin.com/tv
Its also on Netflix if you subscribe to that: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Under_Our_Skin/70118373?trkid=2361637#height2656
You can rent it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=RlvDVTKbNMQ&feature=mv_sr
You can rent it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Under-Our-Skin/dp/B004I0H71I/ref=pd_vodsm_B004I0H71I
Here’s the trailer:

The movie shows how the insurance industry has taken over our healthcare, both on the medical side, and the legal side. Their interest is to pay as little as possible, and to pocket at much as possible. They don’t “produce” anything, their only motive is as a financial institution . . . to make money. Yet we’ve allowed this industry whose interest is to pay as little as they can to take over our medical system and make healthcare decisions for us, and our legal system in controlling who gets their licenses yanked, who can be sued, who can be criminally prosecuted.

This film puts the microscope on Lyme Disease and shows exactly how the insurance industry has taken over medicine and how doctors are allowed to treat patients, and how doctors are prosecuted (by doctors having their licenses taken, and even being sued by insurance companies). Most Doctors dare not try to go outside the “guidelines” for treating Lyme Disease that the insurance industry has put in place for fear of what can happen to them. The film shows what happens to Doctors who do try to go outside those guidelines (licenses yanked, sued, etc.).

This is a slippery slope. If the insurance industry can do this to Lyme Disease, they will try to do it to other health conditions that cost the insurance industry more than they wish to pay. They control the money doctors can make, they control the healthcare that people can get, they control the legal system remedies that are available to doctors and people who are suffering due to this system.

This film shows how the tail wags the dog in our healthcare system.

I ain’t got to be
What nobody else want me to be
And I ain’t afraid to be
What I wanna be
So does that make me
A rebel?
A revolutionary?
Well then so it be
That’s cool with me
Cause I refuse to live life
On terms that don’t satisfy me
And I refuse to answer to anybody
Who wants me to be
“More like them” and
“Less like me”
You see
I am my own man
Built by the hand of God
And so to not be me
Would be quite odd
It’s by his hand
That I can accomplish all
And with His strength
I’m able to rise when I fall
It is through His gift
That i have vision to see
That’s why I ain’t got to be what nobody else want me to be
And I ain’t afraid to be
What I wanna be

Prosecutor’s opening

Gerry Spence’s opening (Defense – of course)