FIX IT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point is a powerful documentary that takes an in-depth look into how our dysfunctional health care system is damaging our economy, suffocating our businesses, discouraging physicians, and negatively impacting on the nation’s health, while remaining un-affordable for a third of our citizens.

Healthcare premiums over the last twenty years have skyrocketed. A worker earning minimum wage can work full time and still not make enough to pay for healthcare benefits. Over 60% of the people who have filed for bankruptcy say that the decision was associated with an increase in medical expenses. Most of these people had health insurance and paid their premiums. Out-of-pocket expenses were so high, they were unable to afford them.

Insurance companies and not doctors are the ones who decide what treatments and medications will be allowed and how long patients can stay in the hospital. The average person in this country goes to the doctor 4.2 times per year, compared to 13 times in Japan. Our system is set up to discourage people from using healthcare and getting the help they need. And it’s still the most expensive system in the world.

The film was two years in the making and features more than forty voices advocating for reform, including activists, health policy experts, economists, physicians, nurses, patients, business owners, and labor leaders.

FIX IT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point

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