Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to better understand and address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform during the coming decade. Effective Care, or Just Expensive Care?The U.S. spends twice as much per person on healthcare as the average developed nation, one-sixth of our GDP, yet our outcomes are often worse. The problem is that much of that spending is wasteful and provides no benefit to the patient. The reason? The U.S. is the only developed nation that has chosen to turn medicine into a largely unregulated, for-profit enterprise. In Money-Driven Medicine frustrated doctors and outraged patients testify to how things can go horribly wrong when the concerns of patients and families are ignored and corporate interests trump patients needs for high quality, affordable care. Veteran physicians stress that reform must begin with the doctor-patient partnership: we need consistent patient-centered care built around informed, shared decision-making. Before patients can reclaim their rightful place at the center of our healthcare system, Maggie Mahar notes, we must empower doctors and nurses to practice patient-centered care based, not on corporate imperatives, but on the best scientific research available. Money-Driven Medicine can encourage health professionals and patients to work together to take back control of healthcare. The film alerts Americans that universal coverage is just the first step in a long and arduous battle for comprehensive reform that will continue long past whatever bill emerges from Congress this fall. We can be sure that the industrys lobbyists continue to resist measures aimed at cost-containment and affordable, results-based care.Screening Money-Driven Medicine will help viewers distinguish between the structural changes we need and sham reform proposals. It will help them realize why a sound, sustainable medical infrastructure is crucial not just to their personal futures but to the economy and society as a whole; why curing Americas healthcare crisis is a matter of national life and death.

California Newsreel Collection

Medical economics -- United States, Medical care -- Cost effectiveness, Medical care -- United States, Health care reform -- United States, Economics, Medical -- United States, Cost-Benefit Analysis -- United States, Fees and Charges -- United States, Health Care Costs -- United States, Health Care Reform, Health Expenditures

Fredericks, Andy (director), Bull, Peter (producer), Gibney, Alex (producer), Matonti, Chris (producer), Johnson, Susan (researcher), Sheehan, Deidre (producer), Johnson, Rob (producer), McConnell, Walt (executive producer), Gabriel Films (producer), Jigsaw Productions (collaborator), BSIDE Entertainment (collaborator)

00:37:21 (HH:MM:SS)

English

adult/continuing education, higher education, college

Name	California Newsreel
Role	distributor
Telephone	415-284-7800
Address	500 Third Street, Suite #505, San Francisco, CA 94107-1875
Email	[email protected]

2009-01-01

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