Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare PG-13

How can we save our badly broken healthcare system?
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 26, 2013
  • Originally Released: 2012
  • Label: Lions Gate

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3.5 stars out of 4 -- The message of ESCAPE FIRE is one you've heard before, although few want to hear it.
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 3, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Arranged in a handful of clear, concise chapters, "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare" turns an unwieldy, Medusa-headed topic into a convincingly humane argument for change.
New York Times
Oct 4, 2012
Rating: B- -- "Escape Fire" will be a learning and thought provoking experience. Full Review
Reeling Reviews
Oct 5, 2012
Arranged in a handful of clear, concise chapters, ESCAPE FIRE: THE FIGHT TO RESCUE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE turns an unwieldy, Medusa-headed topic into a convincingly humane argument for change.
New York Times
Oct 5, 2012
Rating: B -- Dry doings but certainly important and thorough. Full Review
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Oct 6, 2012
Rating: 0/4 -- There's no question the American health care system is broken. But it's not for the reasons directors Susan Froemke and Matthew Heineman posit. Full Review
Washington Examiner
Dec 19, 2018
Rating: 2/4 -- This is the movie equivalent of watching someone walk on hot coals, but for 98 minutes. Full Review
Boston Globe
Oct 4, 2012

Product Description:

Filmmakers Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke put America's broken health-care system under the microscope in this documentary highlighting the ongoing struggle for reform through personal stories of struggle, as well as interviews with noted physicians and politicians. With health-care costs on the rise and prevention measures at an all-time low, Heineman and Froemke question why the powers-that-be continue to maintain a dysfunctional status quo that favors profit over patient care, and explore the reform methods being proposed in Washington, D.C.

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  • UPC: 031398165460
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