You can now watch the entire 86-minute documentary Money-Driven Medicine online (click here). It’s part of a national “watch-in” organized by the film’s distributor California Newsreel in partnership with Consumers Union, Campaign for America’s Future, Campus Progress, Doctors for America, Alternet and others. The film is based on Maggie Mahar’s book of the same name and discusses the skewed incentives in the delivery of care in the U.S. Notes Medical ethicist Larry Churchill:
The current medical care system is not designed to meet the health needs of the population. It is designed to protect the interests of insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, and to a certain extent organized medicine. It is designed to turn a profit. It is designed to meet the needs of the people in power.
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