The Healthcare Movie, Sun Feb 17, 5pm, Lincroft

Post date: Feb 16, 2013 10:16:11 PM

Social Action film: The Healthcare Movie

Sun Feb. 17, 5 pm

Unitarian meetinghouse, 1475 W. Front Street, Lincroft

In Canada, healthcare is regarded as a social service, and treated as a responsibility of the government, to be provided to every citizen.

In America, health care is regarded as a profit-making commodity, to be operated for the financial gain of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, doctors and hospitals.

This documentary considers how it came to be that the two systems ended up in such different places. Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, whose grandfather helped create the Canadian system.

Lynn M. Petrovich, CPA, author of "Sticker Shock", a report exposing the predatory practices of nonprofit hospitals will speak after the film. Free and open to the public. Call 732-284-6312 for more info.