Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare: Directed by Susan Froemke, Matthew Heineman. With Clive Alonzo, Don Berwick, Elizabeth Blackburn, Krystal Bracy. An investigative documentary that uncovers the U.S. healthcare system's true design.

A powerful and thought-provoking documentary that exposes the U.S. healthcare system as one designed to profit on disease rather than health. The film interweaves personal stories with the efforts of leaders battling to transform it.

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare is a 2012 feature-length documentary directed by Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke and released by Roadside Attractions.

Co-directed by Matthew Heineman and Academy Award®-nominee Susan Froemke (Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton), Escape Fire looks at a U.S. healthcare system designed to profit on disease not...

ESCAPE FIRE follows dramatic human stories as well as leaders fighting to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the US military.

Oct 3, 2012 · The documentary “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare” makes this argument with stunning clarity. It argues that American medical treatment is largely focused on getting people into hospitals and giving them drugs, two profit centers that are hugely expensive and supported by massive lobbying campaigns.

Escape Fire, whose title alludes to the practice of starting a small fire to provide shelter from an oncoming blaze, tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how we can save our badly broken healthcare system.

Dec 7, 2012 · In Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare", director Matthew Heineman exposes what he sees as flaws in the U.S. healthcare system, such as a doctor who can spend just minutes...

A documentary that tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: what can be done to save our broken healthcare system?

The fight to rescue american healthcare ESCAPE FIRE examines the powerful forces maintaining the status quo, a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care.