Healthcare Crisis: Who's at Risk? (2000)

Abstract

"A timely and provocative one-hour documentary, Healthcare Crisis: Who's at Risk? explores the human side of the healthcare crisis in America. Focusing on the plight of the uninsured and the other struggles in our healthcare system today, Healthcare Crisis: Who's at Risk? brings us face-to-face with our healthcare policy dilemmas. Filmed at hospitals, in homes, and at workplaces, this award winning documentary features candid converstaions with average individuals and their families and in-depth interviews with doctors, healcare policy experts, and ethicists. The program presents an overview of the healthcare debate and offers small steps we can take today to alleviate some of the suffering and poses some of the long term questiosn we, as a nation, must face." [description taken from cassette case] Narrated by Blythe Danner. Partial funding provided by The Greenwall Foundation and The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey. Website is at http://pbs.org/healthcarecrisis