The Free Market Cure
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| Directed by | Stuart Browning |
| Narrated by | Stuart Browning |
| Distributed by | The Free Market Cure |
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Release date
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2007 |
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Running time
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27 min (combined) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
27 min (combined)
Uninsured in America
(2007) Run Time: 9:03
Two Women
(2007) Run Time: 4:32
A Short Course in Brain Surgery
(2006) Run Time: 5:36
The Lemon
The Free Market Cure is a series of four short documentary films, each of which tells a separate story about the failure of socialized medicine in each of the subjects' lives. The films focus on the "single-payer" system as seen in Canada, the likes of which has been advocated by other filmmakers, like Michael Moore in his film Sicko.
The series is meant to offer examples of cautionary tales which give cause to question the nature of the effectiveness of socialized medicine, particularly for individuals in the United States, whose government is gradually taking steps towards socializing medicine.
This film challenges what the filmmaker calls the "myth" of the suffering uninsured in America. The film gives several pieces of evidence to support its claims. The film claims that according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 data, 17 million (38%) of the approximately 45 million uninsured people in the U.S. live in households that have incomes greater than $50,000 per year, an amount that Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis asserts is high enough that one could reasonably assume that the members of such a household should be able to afford some degree of health insurance coverage. Furthermore, 9 million (20%) of the uninsured, make more than $75,000 per year. Additional demographics that make up a significant portion of the uninsured are the 18 million 18- to 34-year-olds that the film refers to as the "young invincibles", who spend four times as much money on alcohol, tobacco, entertainment, and dining out as on out-of-pocket healthcare, as well as the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. that the film asserts receive healthcare without being insured.
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