[PDA-PDSJ] Must see: "Money Driven Medicine" - Tues. Nov.24

[Joanne O'Neill]

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Reminder: PDA/DFA Progressive Democracy Monthly Meeting tomorrow:

                Wed. N ov.18  @ 7PM  in the Collingswood Library, 1st floor meeting room.

 

 

 

 

Join us on Tuesday, November 24 at 7:00pm

 

For free screening of

 

"Money Driven Medicine "

 

Where: Collingswood Library - 771 Haddon Ave.

 

Admission is Free  - Refreshments will be served - Goodwill Donations Appreciated

Guest Speaker : Tom Knoche

 

‘Money-Driven Medicine” provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to become knowledgeable participants in healthcare reform.
 
Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and based on Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, the film offers a behind-the-scenes look at the $2.6 trillion U.S. healthcare system, how it went so terribly wrong and what it will take to fix it.

 

The U.S. spends twice as much per person on healthcare as the average developed nation, one-sixth of our GDP, yet our outcomes often are 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.

  
“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 America’s healthcare crisis is a matter of national life and death.