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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
I saw it. It made me think- the Milgram experiment was intended to discover how far someone would go when "just following orders." I always had a feeling about it that the subject of the experiment had a reasonable expectation that the "victim" would be fine, just because it was a Yale University study.
HMOs have set up (and, from the Nixon call, deliberately from the offset) a Milgram experiment for real, where the subjects know without a doubt that their action will kill someone. And they do it, because it's a job. The scenes with the woman who weeded out claims were some of the most powerful in the film.
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I think that Peggy Fino (Blue Cross/Humana) was her name...my dad works for them right now and I'm thinking of asking him some straight-forward questons. (that's the only way for him to give an answer)
He's some sort of director for southern branches....An administrator should have some good answers for me.