Library to screen health care documentary
Maine AllCare will present a screening and discussion of “FixIt: Healthcare at the Tipping Point” on Friday, August 19, 2016 from 6-8 p.m., at the Mark and Emily Turner Library. This event is free and open to the public.
“FixIt” is a 58-minute film that documents how our current fragmented, complicated, and expensive health care system is dysfunctional and negatively affects businesses, employee-employer relationships, and health care providers, as well as patients and taxpayers who end up paying for unpaid medical bills. Health care expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcies in the United States according to a CNBC report.
“FixIt” is produced by Richard Master, owner and CEO of MCS Industries, Inc., a company that makes picture frames. “It is time we realize we don’t have to tolerate a system – a $3 trillion health care system – in which one of three dollars is wasted. A system in which just a few sick employees can take down a company. A system that starves the rest of our economy to the point that we don’t have enough money for our schools and roads. We can’t afford to wait any longer,” Master said.
Maine AllCare (www.MaineAllCare.org) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the goal of achieving universal, high quality and affordable health care for the people of Maine. Following the film screening a discussion will be led by Maine AllCare board members Julie Keller Pease M.D., a psychiatrist from Swans Island, and Troy Jackson, a logger and former Senate majority leader, and current candidate for the Maine Senate from Allagash.
