American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System

A provocative look at the cost and inequities of America's hospitals, often more motivated by money and power than in providing for the health needs of individuals and the communities they were founded to serve. From the filmmakers behind the hit documentaries Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point, Big Money Agenda, and Big Pharma. About AMERICAN HOSPITALS: Health care has a stranglehold on the US economy, dominating our annual national spending with unsustainable, out-of-control growth that dangerously outpaces our country's economic growth. Of the $4.5 trillion Americans will spend on health care this year, hospitals will grab by far thebiggest share – nearly one of every three of those dollars. That’s triple the amount Americans spend on prescription drugs. Yet hospitals have avoided the scrutiny of lawmakers and the media, while extracting massive amounts of revenue from their communities with little accountability regarding cost and expansion. As journalist and New York Times best-selling author Dr.Elisabeth Rosenthal says in the movie, “Hospitals get off scot-free.”