John Q (2002)

I read that the Trump administration is once again asking the Supreme Court to overturn and obliterate Obama care, putting the health insurance of 23 million people at risk in the midst of a pandemic.  It is just ludicrous, and well as intended to hurt the working poor and middle class.  This movie is almost 20 years old, but some of the anger about lack of adequate health insurance rings very true today.
At the time of the movie there were 50 million uninsured people, and many more who were under insured.  The story is about a family of working poor who discover that their son needs a heart transplant.  He has health insurance, but he discovers two things--that his work place has changed coverage to something that is inadequate and that because he is currently only part time, that it is very inadequate coverage.  The hospital will not list their son unless they have 1/3 of the cash in hand for the transplant.  No amount of bake sales and passing the collection plate is going to net the tens of thousands needed, and when the hospital is about to discharge him, the father, played by Denzel Washington, takes the cardiac surgeon and the the ER hostage.  It then becomes an action movie, where the bad guy becomes the good guy in everyone's eyes.