(Portland) Pennsylvania business owner Richard Master is fed up with the high cost of health care for his company and for America. But rather than just complain about it, he has set out to fix it. He produced, and is screening in Portland next week, a powerful new documentary analyzing and proposing solutions for the U.S. health system, Fix It - Healthcare at the Tipping Point
For background on Richard Master and why he produced this film click here.
Media Advisory: Invitational Screening of New Health Reform Documentary
What: Screening of Health Reform Documentary Fix It - Healthcare at the Tipping Point
When: Monday, May 23rd, 6:30- 8:00 pm
Where: Holladay Park Plaza Penthouse, 1300 NE 16th Ave, Portland
Who: Richard Master, CEO of MCS Industries and executive producer of Fix It - Healthcare at the Tipping Point, elected officials, business owners, physicians and representatives of sponsoring organizations- Health Care for All Oregon, Physicians for a National Health Program- Oregon and Main Street Alliance of Oregon. For background on Richard Master and why he produced this film click here.
Contact: Lee Mercer, [email protected], 831-818-5347
Portland - An invitational screening of the film Fix It - Healthcare at the Tipping Point, and discussion with Richard Master, CEO of Pennsylvania based MCS Industries will be presented by sponsors Health Care for all Oregon, Physicians For a National Health Program- Oregon and Main Street Alliance of Oregon, at the Holladay Park Plaza Penthouse from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Monday, May 23rd.
This documentary was two years in the making, with interviews of more than forty nationwide advocates for health reform, including business owners, health policy experts, economists, doctors, nurses, patients and labor leaders.
Following the video there will be time for questions and discussion with Richard Master, film producer and CEO of MCS industries, and an update on Oregon’s health care reform efforts by representatives of sponsoring organizations. Elected officials, business owners and physicians will also take part in the discussion.
The film addresses why Americans spend over twice as much per capita on health care as people in the other developed countries. Health care costs in France averages $4,346 per person. For Americans, it’s $8,700. It’s not that Americans are paying more for superior health care. In the World Health Organization’s 2015 ranking of the world’s health systems France ranked number 1, and America ranked number 37.
Americans pay over $3 trillion a year for health care, and yet 30 million people have no health insurance, and the majority of the rest are seriously underinsured. Americans usually don’t discover this until they are hit with enormous medical bills.
For more information on Health Care for All Oregon visit hcao.org, for Main Street Alliance of Oregon visitoregon.mainstreetalliance.org/, for Physicians for a Nation Health Program- Oregon visit pnhp.org/states/Oregon
