| WETA ACTION SERIES: Paying For Health Care | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 11290 |
| Catalog #: | 491529 | |
| Clip Number: | 491529-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 61-7057 | |
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| Year Shot: | 1990 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Insurance | |
| Description: | 20.16.30-Discussion of the MEDICAL PROFESSION, the costs of SPECIALIZATION in medicine. Discussion of the dynamics of the private health market versus some other countries' NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, particularly the CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, discussion of problems of UNINSURED PEOPLE and "Underinsured". A representative of the HERITAGE FOUNDATION offers an absurd rationale for total FREE-MARKETISM in HEALTHCARE "MARKET". 20.33.45-Discussion of the COST OF HEALTHCARE for the poor. Video segment on a young, self-employed African-American woman who cannot afford to insure herself, then could not get insurance because of a "PRE-EXISTING CONDITION" of being pregnant. Shot of poor people waiting in a HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM. Discussion of the numbers of UNINSURED in Washington and the country. Shot of a MEDICAL AIRLIFT HELICOPTER LANDING [Medivac, Medevac] and paramedics wheeling a patient from the helicopter on a gurney. Shot of ambulance with flashing lights on night street. 20.39.49-Discussion of issues of ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE and the UNINSURED, which causes complications when people can only use medical facilities out of desperation, I.E. using the emergency room as the only source of care. Discussion of what municipal government might do to ensure greater resources for care for the UNINSURED. Some advocacy of NATIONAL HEALTHCARE. 20.54.45-Discussion of how individuals can try to minimize their risk of being caught by mammoth healthcare costs. 20.57.21-titles for contact information for WETA healthcare information kit. Host signs off show. 20.57.59-closing credits/WETA credit/funding credits/ 20.58.46--OUT | |
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