Money-Driven Medicine
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Money-Driven Medicine (California Newsreel, 2009) is a documentary film
that offers a behind the scenes look at the American healthcare system. The 86 minute documentary explores the economics underlying – and often undermining -- the $2.6 trillion US healthcare system.
Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney
(Taxi to the Dark Side
, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
) and inspired by Maggie Mahar’s book “Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much.” Money-Driven Medicine looks at how the United States spends twice as much per capita on healthcare as the average developed nation, and still has worse outcomes by explaining that the United States is the only developed nation with a medical system that is largely unregulated and for profit.
Money-Driven Medicine interviews a wide variety of experts including Don Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); Dr. James Weinstein of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) and bio-ethicist Dr. Larry Churchill of Vanderbilt.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
that offers a behind the scenes look at the American healthcare system. The 86 minute documentary explores the economics underlying – and often undermining -- the $2.6 trillion US healthcare system.
Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time."...
(Taxi to the Dark Side
Taxi to the Dark Side
Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature...
, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a study of one of the largest business scandals in American history...
) and inspired by Maggie Mahar’s book “Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much.” Money-Driven Medicine looks at how the United States spends twice as much per capita on healthcare as the average developed nation, and still has worse outcomes by explaining that the United States is the only developed nation with a medical system that is largely unregulated and for profit.
Money-Driven Medicine interviews a wide variety of experts including Don Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); Dr. James Weinstein of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) and bio-ethicist Dr. Larry Churchill of Vanderbilt.