Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

"How can we save our badly broken healthcare system?"

Oct 5 2012 PG-13 1h 35m
Documentary, News

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.

Plot

ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: what can be done to save our broken medical system? The film examines the powerful forces trying to maintain the status quo in a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground. ESCAPE FIRE follows dramatic human stories as well as leaders fighting to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the US military. The film is about a way out, about saving the health of a nation.

Written by

N/A

Directed by

Susan Froemke, Matthew Heineman

Production Countries

United States of America, China, Germany

Production Companies

Aisle C, Our Time Projects

Languages

English

Awards

5 wins & 3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
568
Average Rating
7.4 out of 10
Metascore
67
Popularity
NA