American Hospitals-Healing a Broken System
Wed, Nov 15
|Santa Rosa
This short film will open your eyes to how our current healthcare system is failing the average American. The film will be followed by a lead conversation on what comes next and how we might fix it.
Time & Location
Nov 15, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Santa Rosa, 3473 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95407, USA
About the event
We will have pizza and popcorn. This is a FREE event.
THE PROBLEM WITH HOSPITALS - Click here to see full flier
Health care has a stranglehold on the U.S. economy, dominating our annual national spending with unsustainable, out-of-control growth that far outpaces annual economic growth. Of the $4.5 trillion Americans will spend on health care this year, hospitals will take by far the biggest share – nearly one of every three of those dollars.
That’s triple the amount Americans spend on prescription drugs. Yet hospitals have avoided the scrutiny of lawmakers and the media, while extracting massive amounts of revenue from their communities with little accountability regarding cost and expansion.
As journalist and New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Rosenthal says in the movie, “Hospitals get off scot-free.”
American Hospitals uncovers the economic incentives of an industry that is charging outrageous fees while sitting on billions of dollars in…