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Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Matthew Heineman released in USA on 5 october 2012

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (2012)

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
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Released in USA 5 october 2012
Length 1h38
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating73% 3.6793453.6793453.6793453.6793453.679345

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. Escape Fire premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, opened in select theaters on October 5, 2012, and was simultaneously released on iTunes and Video-on-Demand. The film was released on DVD in February 2013 and premiered on CNN on March 10, 2013.

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"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? 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. The film follows dramatic personal stories, as well as leaders fighting to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the US military.

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