Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
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  • Summary: Escape Fire 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. The film is about a way out, about saving the health of a nation. (Roadside Attractions)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Oct 3, 2012
    88
    When we speak of "American health care," we should in fact be calling it "American sickness care." There's more money to be made in making people sick and healing them than in keeping them well in the first place. The documentary Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare makes this argument with stunning clarity.
  2. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Katie Walsh
    Oct 6, 2012
    83
    Ultimately, while 'Escape Fire' proposes numerous options for changing the system-- getting Medicare to cover healthy lifestyle counseling programs, incentivizing doctors to spend time with patients, and patients to empower their own health-- the one that is most poignant is that people should spend the time to take care of each other.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    Oct 4, 2012
    60
    This impassioned documentary is well-intentioned and admirable in its aims, but overreaching and therefore lacking impact.

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