| Money-Driven Medicine | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Andrew Fredericks |
| Produced by | Alex Gibney |
| Written by | Maggie Mahar |
| Distributed by | California Newsreel |
| Release date(s) | 2009 |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Money-Driven Medicine (California Newsreel, 2009) is a documentary film that offers a behind the scenes look at the American healthcare system. The 86 minute documentary explores the economics underlying – and often undermining -- the $2.6 trillion US healthcare system.
Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and inspired by Maggie Mahar’s book “Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much.” Money-Driven Medicine looks at how the United States spends twice as much per capita on healthcare as the average developed nation, and still has worse outcomes by explaining that the United States is the only developed nation with a medical system that is largely unregulated and for profit.[1]
Money-Driven Medicine interviews a wide variety of experts including Don Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); Dr. James Weinstein of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) and bio-ethicist Dr. Larry Churchill of Vanderbilt.