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Article 99 [Region 2] Reviews:
What will happen with National Health Care
2009-06-02 - I have seen this movie several times, and now will purchase it. Anyone that thinks the government's Universal Health Care plan is going to be the cure all for health care should see this movie. Then think on expanding all that happens from just the Veteran's Administration to a National scope. Very scary. It would be like the California DMV running the insurance companies.


Tells it Like it is!
2009-02-17 - As a thirteen year disabled Vietnam Era combat veteran who has been wrestling with the VA system for the past twenty years since being medically disabled (That is AFTER fighting the US Army to save my career or get my disability recognized) I laughed through my tears with my Vietnam Veteran brother as we watched this film.

Do you wonder why PTSD vets go off and do crazy things at VA hospitals? Watch this film. Do you wonder why we vets seem angry all the time? Watch this film. Do you REALLY think government run healthcare is the way America should go? WATCH THIS FILM!!!

Anyone who believes in socialized medicine should have to endure the Army's medical system where the good doctors have to fight the system -that is AFTER you get to see a real doctor because REAL doctors are in short supply, it took me five years after my initial release from medical care when I was injured in a parachute accident to see a real doctor again- I had to go through the medics and the Battalion Aid Station, the Physician Assistants at the Troop Medical Clinic and only when I was in danger of being chaptered out of service for my disability did I get to see a real doctor at separation physicals who spotted my condition and referred me to specialists who could at least diagnose if not help me. Then, I was given the left foot of fellowship on a medical discharge and left to the tender mercies of the VA.

I've met some good VA doctors, but the problem is every time you go back to the clinic you see a new one and have to start over again. Or they make and appointment for a test two months down the road and a followup visit six months later to learn the results.

Yeah, we need the government to run healthcare. Now, if I sound political here and it bothers you, leave this movie alone because that is what this film is all about - how government bureaucracy and red tape defeats the purpose of the mission of the VA- or what it's supposed to be.

It also details in heartbreaking satire the broken promises to our nation's vets. Yes, I've been treated like a welfare case and worse- a bum. I've been brow-beaten by my doctor when I asked a question about the rating system for disability like I was some sort of bum because I wasn't satisfied with what I was getting. The problem is, if a veteran dies from a service connected disability and it isn't properly rated and recognized, his loved ones don't receive survivor's benefits. But I'm on a rant here.

And today's vets are in for it, too. Tri-Care for Life is a joke and the VA isn't set up to handle the influx of vets coming from the current wars. Those of us from previous conflicts are sent to the back of the line to make room for the new vets. The problems shown in this move are only going to get worse.

I know Liotta and Sutherland are just actors, but they will always have a warm spot in my heart for making this movie.

M*A*S*H Revisited
2008-03-03 - This is a great movie that shows the state of government red tape in the care of those who defended our freedom. It does tend to overplay the actions of the doctors a bit, but overall it is a good movie. It reminds of M*A*S*H a great deal. Ray Liotas character is Hawkeye, Sutherlands character is BJ and several other chracters are definetly M*A*S*H rewrites.

Too True NOT To Watch If You Care About Our Vets
2008-03-01 - Sure, there are a lot of hokey, campy, surreal things in the film, but Article 99 (much like M*A*S*H) served-SERVES-to remind us how deeply flawed our VA system is when it comes to its job...caring for those of us who served our country. We've had benefits cut we were promised, denied other benefits, had more denied to us than we imagined...so yes, Article 99 is almost TOO true.

The 'over the topness' of parts of the film only serve as comic relief to tamp down the dreadfulness that indeed IS the average VA hospital...and the way your average vet is treated by the VA. Those that care are outnumbered hopelessly by bean counters; care that should be rote standard (and is in 'civilian' hospitals) is put off until the patient either gives up or dies. Don't get me wrong...as the film shows, there are a LOT of staffers who care...but they are often overlooked, buried or beaten down by a system geared to its own survival instead of its mission.

If you've not given much thought to the plight of veterans and how the government treats them after the battle is fought, watch and consider Article 99. Then call your Congressman and whomever else you can to demand that those who fought for you are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve...especially as many vets use the VA Medical Service because they can't afford a 'real' hospital and/or health insurance.

Great movie although not well known.
2007-12-15 - Lots of well-known actors star in this film: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, Eli Wallach, Keith David, but it is not a well-known film. A lot of people have not even heard of it. But that doesn't change the fact that this movie is great. It's very well written, directed and acted. It is action packed right from the beginning. The theme surrounds the poor medical care given to our war veterans and how the legislature Article 99 is actually a conspiracy to deny the veterans medical benefits. This movie has a great ending.