Social Justice Issues In John Q

In this movie, John Q. Archibald and his wife Denise recently attended their son Michaels baseball game. During the run to second base he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital, later on finding out Michael has an enlarged heart and will need a transplant soon otherwise, they should make the next couple days, weeks, or even months memorable before his passing. John and Denise were on the verge of poverty and couldn’t manage to afford $250,000 for the surgery. Johns job for years knocked him down from full-time to part-time changing his insurance and policy plan which will not cover the surgery. Unfortunately, time was coming to an end for Michael and after months of applying to additional healthcare services, John was unable to find any that would accept him, leaving him to hold eleven hostages in the ER until the hospital puts his son's name on the list for the transplant.
As John and his wife Denise searched ways to come up with the $75,000 down payment, unfortunately, they were unsuccessful. The social justice issue that is presented is the healthcare system. The Archibald’s did not have access to a sufficient healthcare even though John had insurance through his job there were restrictions due to his hours putting him at part-time and not a full-time employee. Being the parents that they are, they are using
lost. The reason so is because he did not have to take hostages, he could had avoided that. John is a religious man and he should have had a little more faith. Even though is the gun was not loaded does not mean he had to the right to terrify an expected mother and a handful of other people in the E.R. in the beginning. If I wasn’t his or a social worker another perspective could be that John won. He was determined to get his son on the donor's list and he did. Yes, it resulted from him going to jail and missing so many of Michaels milestones but his son has a second chance at