Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 5, 2012

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

67%

Original Title

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

Production Companies

Aisle C, Our Time Projects

Director

Matthew Heineman

Revenue

$97,316

Description

Our healthcare system is broken. Potent forces fight to maintain the status quo in a medical industry created for quick fixes, rather than prevention; for profit-driven, rather than patient-driven, care. Healthcare is at the center of an intense political firestorm in our nation's capital. But the current battle over cost and access does not ultimately address the root of the problem: we have a disease-care system, not a health-care one. After decades of opposition, a movement to introduce innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing is finally gaining ground.