BUSINESS AND HEALTHCARE IN JOHN Q FILM (2002)

For the submission task to complete the last semester test

Edited by :

M. Fauzi Arrasyid

Number id :

1879202009

Lecturer :

Dra. Sorta Hutahaean, M.pd.

American Culture

English Literature

Faculty of Humanities

University of Lancang Kuning

Pekanbaru

2019/2020
Synopsis

John Q tells about the father who wants to save his son’s life from heart disease, but the
father does not have the money to pay the surgery cost to transplant his son’s heart and want
to put his son’s name in surgery list. Besides he has a problem with complicated healthcare
insurance and does everything to save his son’s life.

Contents

Business.................................................................................................................................................1

Doing Business In The United States................................................................................................1

Diversity........................................................................................................................................1

Meeting..........................................................................................................................................1

Turnover........................................................................................................................................2

Hardwork.......................................................................................................................................3

Healthcare.............................................................................................................................................3

Cultural Underpinnings.....................................................................................................................4

Political Ramfication.........................................................................................................................5
 Business
Doing Business In The United States

Diversity

In terms of the workforce, women and minorities are gaining acceptance in a wider range of
occupations as well as higher ranks. There are more disabled persons among the workforce,
and increasing acceptance and accommodation of alternate lifestyles (gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgender) is evident.

This derives from egalitarianism and a sense of practicality - it's a common belief and often a
written statement of companies that they do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender,
nationality, physical ability, sexual preference, and so on. Ideally, companies wish to focus
on objective ability and professional competence and consider such factors to be irrelevant.

24:13 (the black man (left) ask the white man (right) to claim the insurance of his son’s heart
transplation. It means that this business is not look at the race and continue as usual)

Meeting
Meetings are of course common in the business world, but what actually happens in meetings
varies greatly, not just from country to country but from organization to organization.
Meetings can have a variety of purposes—sharing information, giving instructions,
heightening employee enthusiasm and dedication, discussing issues and problems, suggesting
solutions, making decisions, and no doubt others. Americans like to know explicitly what a
meeting’s purpose is. “What’s the agenda?” they may ask. “Why are we here?”

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The picture is on the next page

01:11:46 ( The police have a meeting to paralyze the black man - the father that want his son
on the surgery list and to free the hostages. This black man hold the hostages in the
emergency room)

Turnover

Comparatively, Americans have a greater tendency to change jobs and employers than other
cultures. Recent studies suggest that an average 38-year-old has held an average of 13 to 14
different jobs. In the late twentieth century, the American labor force changed from one in
which employers remained with a single company to one in which individuals change jobs
frequently - and from one in which an individual who remains at one employer for a long
period of time is no longer perceived as steadfast and loyal, but as lacking ambition or
competence, such that he has neither sought out or been sought for a better opportunity.

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10:52 ( The black man wanted to apply another job in a purpose to find a great income to pay
his son’s surgery)

Hardwork

While they may appear to be informal and relaxed, Americans generally work hard. They
may devote long hours—as many as 16 or 18 per day—to their jobs. They may consider their
work more important than family responsibilities and social relationships. Americans use the
term workaholic to describe a person who seems addicted to work—one who spends as much
time as possible on the job and seems to think of little else. Workaholics are by no means rare
in the American business world.

The picture is on the next page

04:22 (The man tells to his wife that he worked for 20 hours)

Healthcare

There are primarily two conflicting perspectives about the American healthcare system,
recognized both aboard and domestically. First, that the United States offers the highest
quality of medical care and is at the vanguard of research and practice. Second, that
American healthcare is exceedingly expensive and generally accessible only to the wealthy,
and that many Americans cannot afford the level of care they arguably need.

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21:52 ( The cost for transplation is surgery is very expensive in United States)

Cultural Underpinnings

In a board sense, the American notion of healthcare is based on the practice of "Western
medicine" with the notion of individual independence, freedom, and free enterprise.Western
medicine is a scientific approach to the treatment of patience, focusing on the disciplines of
anatomy and physiology - the structure and function of the body's systems - in terms of
physics (mechanical operation) and chemistry. It generally assumes that illness can be
attributed to a very specific cause, and that those causes are capable of being addressed,
usually by means of pharmaceuticals and surgery

1:44:18 (The surgery is being done by the doctors with the science of anatomy and surgery.)

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Political Ramfication

In many countries, the welfare of the people is considered to be the concern of the
government, and healthcare is deemed to be a public service that people should expect their
government to provide for them, and relegate decisions related to healthcare to authority.

This is in contrast to American values, especially the notion of rights and responsibilities of
the individual: a person's body is their property, a person is responsible for pursuing their
own benefit, and a person is neither compelled to support or make decisions for others. A
notion that Americans find objectionable is being compelled to undergo medical treatment
because anyone but themselves has decided it is necessary for their physical or mental well-
being.

There is also the general American distrust for governmental authority. It is generally
assumed government intrusion into healthcare would favor some at the cost of others, and be
given or denied to patients based on political agenda rather than need.

So while debate continues, it seems unlikely that Americans will consent to much
government intrusion or assistance in their healthcare system.

One exception seems to be in providing a basic level of care to the poor or the elderly,
through the Medicare program. Even in that case, there is constant debate over whether the
system provides an adequate level of care, or whether it is excessive and, as a result,
excessively expensive to taxpayers.

There are various approaches Americans use to mitigate the personal cost of healthcare:

 They pay “out of pocket,” using their own money.

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 28:25 (They are counting the money that they saved for the surgery cost)

 Most employers provide some level of health insurance, or pay a portion of the
premium, as a benefit of employment. Though this tends to cover only necessary care
for the treatment of injury and disease, minimal preventative care, and almost never
elective surgery.

24:13 (Insurance can be applied to the claimant, but in the picture has the problem that
insurance cannot be claimed and has limitations due to the existing policy)

Americans who cannot afford medical care generally must rely on government or charity aid,
though it is generally known that hospital emergency rooms are required by law to provide
treatment, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

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28:53 ( This society in this film have a donation to reduce the burden of the father’s burden in
his son’s surgery cost)