Free screening of new film about the health care crisis

The film will be screened at 6:30 p.m. at the Merriam Park Branch Library, 1831 Marshall Ave., Saint Paul. It is free and open to all.

“Money Driven Medicine” provides the essential introduction Americans need to become knowledgeable participants in healthcare reform. Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney and based on Maggie Mahar\’s acclaimed book of the same title, the film offers an accessible, journalistically rigorous explanation of how the U.S. healthcare system went so terribly wrong and what it will take to fix it.

Just released in August, the 86-minute documentary reveals how the profit-driven "medical-industrial complex" drives costs up and quality of care down. Experts interviewed by the filmmakers encourage the public to become savvy medical consumers and health professionals to rescue their vocation from the corporate bottom line.

A short discussion will follow the screening. The film is part of “Labor in the Community” programming offered by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service. Council 5 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is a union of 43,000 public and non-profit workers throughout Minnesota.

For more information

Download a PDF of the flier for "Money Driven Medicine"

View a video trailer