Sick in America
Subtitle: John Stossel on healthcare
By: ABC News Productions
Contributors: ABC News Productions; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); Films Media Group
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hamilton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Medical care; Health insurance
Other titles: Whose body is it, anyway?; 20/20 (Television program)
Description: Who is to blame for America's healthcare mess, and how can we fix it? In this ABC News program, John Stossel examines the insurance industry, the need for competition among care providers, and the possibility of combining lower costs with better medicine. Arguing against Michael Moore's documentary Sicko, which advocates government-funded healthcare, Stossel interviews Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, who takes aim at the legislative process as well as insurers and hospitals. Featuring doctors who have forged direct relationships with their patients by eliminating insurance middlemen, the program also spotlights Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and his company's innovative health savings account plans
Notes: "A John Stossel special."

Originally produced as an episode of the ABC television program 20/20 and aired on 9/14/07.

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Host, John Stossel.

DVD-R.
Table of contents: title: Issues surrounding American healthcare (3:17); title: Employer-paid health insurance (3:56); title: Health insurance and pre-existing health problems (4:04); title: Insurance fraud and insurance paperwork (3:01); title: Socialized health care (4:16); title: Canadian healthcare system (2:44); title: Healthcare and profit motive (5:06); title: Insurance deductibles/health savings accounts (4:14); title: Competition and healthcare (4:04); title: Cash-based medical practices (3:22).