About the Project
This a 90 minute documentary film. Protesters on various sides of the recent health care insurance reform issues give their views, actively debated around the country in the summer of 2009 at street rallies, protests, and town hall meetings. The film uses a stream of conversation style that links interviews in an ongoing dialog to explain aspects of the issues involved, from the question of socialism, to reports of people dying for lack of health insurance, to arrests of protesters at sit-ins.
Highlights include interviews with doctors and nurses at various rallies such as the Hollywood “Mad as Hell Doctors” rally.
Maureen Cruise, RN, very eloquently and effectively narrates a sit-in protest at the Anthem Blue Cross offices in Los Angeles, where she explains in detail how the public option plans are written by lobbyists and will have little positive effect in her view, how the U.S suffers from health care debt and how we compare to other countries that see health care as a human right.
The question of socialism is explored with right wing tea party activists.
Throughout the film, President Obama explains his points as each issue is explored, through archival footage of his press conferences and speeches.
A cast of over sixty people make for an interesting street survey of the ongoing health care debate.
Production Team
