Healthy state. (L.A. Stories).

Never one to pass up an opportunity to score a political point -- especially GOP challengers nipping at his heels -- Gov. Gray Davis took aim at Hollywood this week, specifically the new movie "John Q."

In the film, which opened to scathing reviews, Denzel Washington portrays a distraught father who arms himself and takes over a hospital when his health plan refuses to cover a heart transplant for his son.

In response, Daniel Zingale, director of the state Department of Managed Health Care, held a press conference to declare that the movie should be rated "NCA" -- not in California. Touting the state's Department of Managed Health Care, which operates a toll free help line, Zingale suggested that in California Denzel could have picked up the phone, rather than a gun.

But the Administration's machinations weren't entirely convincing to patients' rights advocates. "I am happy they are out there touting that there is a system that protects patients' rights, but there are still far too many cracks to fall between for a patient in California," said Jamie Court, of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.