The Politics of Art & Authenticity

The Waiting Room is a film about everything that is wrong with our healthcare system. It follows a couple of doctors in a lapse of twenty-four hours, as well as some patients and how they struggle with receiving healthcare. I think that in the 21^st century and being in a first world country, the healthcare system should be more advanced and of better quality.

In the film we see how doctors are stuck between deciding to send a patient out into the cold or opening up the bed to someone who has a live bullet moving inside his body. The decisions that these doctors have to make can sometimes cost lives. But it comes down to making the decisions that will affect the most people in the most positive way.

I find it kind of ironic, being Mexican and all, coming from a country that is considered third world by many, that healthcare in Mexico, is cheaper, more widely available, and sometimes better.

Programs like the infamous Seguro Popular, which is available if you have no insurance, cover major surgeries and such. I mean it’s free and sometimes it will take some time, but it beats going into debt because of health problems.

One of the things that is so reassuring is that sometimes, cheaper doesn’t necessarily mean less quality.

I think that the demands that it takes to receive a medical degree here in the U.S. are too many. I mean if we look at doctors from Cuba who have only received six years of schooling, they aren’t better or worse doctors. The plating field is equal.

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