In the movies, villainous health insurers have been a chronic condition

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In the movies, villainous health insurers have been a chronic condition
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For better or — mostly — worse, Hollywood has helped shape the public's image of the health insurance industry in films ranging from John Grisham's The Rainmaker to the Oscar-winning As Good as It Gets.

Denzel Washington and Kimberly Elise play parents who learn that their 9-year-old son's heart transplant won't be covered by insurance.The killing of health insurance executive, Brian Thompson has led to a flood of anger on social media — directed not at the shooter but at health insurance providers — and suddenly, we're surprised that in the public imagination, insurance companies seem to be bad guys? But Hollywood's been making villains of them for years.

By the mid-1990s, these corporate plans were widely credited for doing that.

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