It is December 2024. Right now, the news is reporting on the recent assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare - a company that reportedly using AI technology to deny claims of their customers.
The suspect is still at large - and to many, is a hero. Many people are sharing their stories of headaches / losses / struggles they have experienced while dealing with Insurance companies and their blanket denials. (Others are going to so far as to make jokes and cheer on the death of the CEO). Finally, at the murder site, the bullet shells have the following - "deny," "defend" and "depose"

The year is 1995. John Grisham - the hottest legal thriller writer in America - publishes his new book.
The Rainmaker.
The story is about a dying young man, who's family hires a rookie lawyer, to help them get an insurance company to pay for life saving bone marrow transplant. During the course of the trial, we learn that the company's policy was to denial ALL claims. (And I am not going to get started on the denial letter that ends with "You must be stupid, stupid, stupid." In today's world, that last sentence would have gone virtual the moment a picture of it was snapped and posted to social media).
30 years ago, Grisham pointed out how the insurance companies were working to keep their wallets full of other people's money, while callously killing off those who needed help the most. This was before AI. Before many automated systems. It was a simple chapter in a manual - denial all claims.

Today, I sat down, to rewatch this film - it's been a few years since I last watched it, and given the atmosphere, it is timely. I was frustrated and angry, at the actions of the insurance company's lawyer (and yes I see the irony of having Jon Voight - a man who's views tend to be towards Red more than Blue. And the line about government control insurance / healthcare almost had me do a spit take), and especially with the CEO of the insurance company. And how, in the end, while the grieving family won the case, they wont see a penny, but can take satisfaction in knowing they took down an insurance company.