American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System

Directed by: Vincent Mondillo, Richard Master Released: 2023 (educational) Year of Production: 2021 Running Time: 66 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: US Studies, Physical and Mental Health, Urban Space and Systems        Health care has a stranglehold on the US economy, dominating our annual national spending with unsustainable, out-of-control growth that dangerously outpaces our country's economic growth. Of the $4.5 trillion Americans will spend on health care this year, hospitals will grab 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 Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal says in the movie, “Hospitals get off scot-fr