Escape Fire Screening and Panel Discussion
Free screening of the film "Escape Fire" followed by facilitated panel discussion featuring local medical and patient leaders and an audience Q&A session led by MacArthur Fellow and honored guest Dr. Jeffrey Brenner from the Camden Coalition. This event is sponsored by Aligning Forces Humboldt and the Humboldt-Del Norte Independent Practice Association. About the Film: The film “ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare” tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system? American healthcare costs are rising so rapidly that they could reach $4.2 trillion annually, roughly 20% of our gross domestic product, within ten years. We spend $300 billion a year on pharmaceutical drugs – almost as much as the rest of the world combined. We pay more, yet our health outcomes are worse. About 65% of Americans are overweight and almost 75% of healthcare spending goes to preventable diseases that are the major causes of disability and death in our society. ESCAPE FIRE explores these themes and more. ESCAPE FIRE also presents attainable solutions. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground. Filmmakers Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke interweave dramatic personal arcs of patients and physicians with the stories of leaders battling to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the U.S. military. ESCAPE FIRE is about finding a way out of our current crisis. It’s about saving the health of a nation.
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