“What is Wrong With America?”  Steve Skvara, Steelworker, to the Presidental Candidates, August 7th, 2007.

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Michael Moore Talks 'SiCKO' and More on Nightline (6/13/07)

SOME FILM SUGGESTIONS:

Use FILMS and Power Points

1. Organizing a Healthcare Film Festival Can help you build

2. If you want to do an event that will help build the work of Healthcare-NOW in your city, a little film festival is a good idea.

3. In New York City, Louisville, Kentucky, and Bellingham, Washington, we used film festivals to bring together a diverse group of people to build the new coalition that helped build Healthcare-NOW.

4. Regular film showings will help reach new people.  Everybody In; Nobody Out!

HOLLYWOOD FILMS:

"John Q" with Denzel Washington.  People stand up and cheer when they see this film and Denzel's challenge to the denials of the healthcare system. 

"Damaged Care" starring Laura Dern is another film about the way insurance companies and HMO's deny care to people who desperately need it.  Both of these films are available on the internet or at the video store.

Explaining The Bush Prescription Drug Plan -- Excellent Short Film

Great Walter Cronkite Prescription Drug video. About 10 minutes long. Be sure to show it wherever you are speaking.  Everyone needs to know and understand how privatization of the healthcare system is being implemented for giant corporate profits. http://www.familiesusa.org/issues/medicare/rx-drug-center/cronkite-video.html  Free.

"The Prom":  clear and simple five minute animated explanation of the single-payer universal health care system. It was created by Graham Walker, a medical student at Stanford University and former staff member of Physicians for a National Health Program. See it now and use it for your group. Feel free to download and use the video--just click the link here:http://www.grahamazon.com/sp/whatissinglepayer.php

You then open the HTML file in a browser and it'll display!  (Graham Walker)

See POWER POINT: WHAT IS WRONG WITH HAVING THE INSURANCE COMPANIES in the healthcare business.  Find out what is wrong with all of the FOR-PROFIT healthcare plans being proposed that continue to have profit-making at their center.
A Power Point by Professor Len Rodberg, Research Director of the NY Metro Chapter of PNHP. Rodberg presented this comparison at a forum held by the NY Metro Chapter of PNHP and co-sponsored by the NY Chapter of Healthcare-Now. He describes the many "hybrid" healthcare plans that have been introduced by Members of Congress;

• PNHP PowerPoint on Various Healthcare Plans
• Daily KOS Healthcare Articles

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  PDFs
• Businessman Discovers that No One is Immune to Impossible Health Insurance Restrictions - PDF Presentation

YouTube Videos

HEALTHCARE-NOW, National Strategy Meeting

Congressman John Conyers on "How We Can Win."   7 minutes  of inspiration from Representative Conyers.  "Giant Steps to Health Reform" on YouTube.

California "One Care Now":  Academy Award Nominated Film

This film explains everything you wanted to know and everything you want everyone else to know about why we need a single payer system, how it would work, how it would be unded, and how people need to organize to get it.  It focuses on the California plan, but makes clear that we need a national single payer system. About 30 minutes. Order it from One Care Now.  1-888-442-4255  $10 One Healthcare Solution: California OneCare

Video: "Under Attack: Labor and the Health Care Crisis,"

$10 for VHS or DVD; 14 minute video resource. Some important labor testimony from a lot of different unions. Made in 2004 at Healthcare-NOW conference during the Republican Convention. From Healthcare-NOW, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012.info@healthcare-now.org; 800-452-1305.

"HEALTHCARE: WE GOTTA HAVE IT!"  Film made by young women of color in the 1990's explaining why we need a single payer national healthcare system.  The numbers are a bit out of date because the healthcare costs and the numbers of uninsured have almost doubled since then.  Premiums have gone up over 70 percent during the Bush Administration.  But the people in the film are compelling, because the the case they make for single payer national healthcare is even more relevant than ever. Order from Healthcare-NOW.  Paired with "The Prom."$10.

"Dont' be a Chicken"
A short humorous film about how a community decided to quit

being chickens and started organizing for healthcare.  A film for breaking the ice. Order from Healthcare-NOW.

The Healthcare-NOW Power Point Presentation on health care issues and single-payer solutions. (click to download it, open with MicroSoft Power Point). Also download the script that goes with the slide show.

“Wynde Priddy, co-creator of the
Healthcare-NOW Generation Debt Team and Power Point.”

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Vermont Health Care For All organization a powerpoint presentation by Dr. Deb Richter,

"A tutorial On the Healthcare Crisis" to download

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CUBA HEALTHCARE FILM "SALUD" Available in Spanish and English

©MEDICC, 2006 - All Rights Reserved - saludthefilm.net - info@saludthefilm.net
The ¡Salud! website has been developed courtesy of MEDICC
(Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba), www.medicc.org.

Dubbed a film especially important for young people, Jay Bhatt, President of the American Medical Students Association comments: “¡SALUD! should be required viewing for all medical students.”

"For anyone interested in health and social justice, “¡Salud! is indispensable to understanding the Cuban model -- what has been accomplished with very limited resources and the transformative potential of construing health as a fundamental human right and a matter of basic human dignity."
Alicia Yamin, JD, MPH, Physicians for Human Rights

"I salute ¡Salud! for teaching us how much we can learn not just about - but from - Cuba."
Julian Bond, Chairman of the Board, (NAACP)

¡Salud! - Sinopsis in English

Find out what puts Cuba on the map in the quest for global health …

A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba , a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas , !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA . Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right.

Against the alarming backdrop of the global health crisis and deteriorating public health systems in even the richest nations, ¡Salud! tells the little-known story of Cuba : a poor country overcoming its lack of resources to provide universal health care and help other developing nations do the same.

A feature documentary, ¡Salud! is directed by Academy Award nominee Connie Field and co-produced by Gail Reed. The film spans three continents to look at the philosophy and health professionals placing Cuba on the map in the worldwide movement to make health care a global birthright. Today, Cubans are among the world’s healthiest people, despite the island’s poverty. Cuba ’s volunteer corps now posts 28,000 health professionals in 68 countries; and Cuban medical schools will graduate an unprecedented 100,000 new doctors from developing countries over the next decade.

The film’s cameras reach into The Gambia, rural South Africa , coastal villages of Honduras and river settlements in the Amazon, where a Cuban is often the first doctor a poor community has ever seen. In some nations they staff entire health systems. In all, they take with them the experience and philosophy of their own community-oriented, preventive and universal health care model fundamentally at odds with a global wave of healthcare privatization.

¡Salud! questions what propels Cuban doctors to serve where most others won’t.

¡Salud! - Sinopsis in Spanish

Cuba y la batalla por el derecho a la salud…

Un oportuno análisis de los valores humanos y los debates en salud que nos conciernen a todos, ¡Salud!analiza el peculiar caso de Cuba, un país con pocos recursos que posee lo que la BBC llama “uno de los mejores sistemas de salud en el mundo”. Durante 40 años, las batas blancas de Cuba se han divisado en los rincones más distantes del planeta. Las cámaras de ¡Salud!invitan a acompañarlos en sus labores en La Gambia, Sudáfrica rural, la Mosquitia hondureña, los cerros de Caracas y la ribera del Orinoco venezolano, donde un cubano suele ser el primer médico visto por sus pobladores.

Los voluntarios cubanos de la salud son 28 000 en 68 naciones: y 30,000 estudiantes extranjeros matriculan en las facultades de medicina de la isla, incluyendo casi 100 de los EEUU. Sus experiencias, unidas al testimonio de expertos del mundo entero, dan cuenta de las contradictorias agendas que marcan la batalla por la salud global— y las complejas realidades que confronta la lucha por hacer de la salud un derecho para todos.

El documental ¡Salud! es un largometraje dirigido por la galardonada cineasta Connie Field y co-producida por Gail Reed. El filme abarca tres continentes, donde observa la filosofía y los profesionales de la salud que colocan a Cuba en la línea del frente en la lucha global por convertir la atención médica en un derecho para todos. Hoy, los cubanos se encuentran entre las personas más saludables del mundo a pesar de los escasos recursos en la isla. Un total de 28,000 profesionales de la salud cubanos trabajan hoy en 68 países; y durante la próxima década, las facultades de medicina cubanas graduarán 100 000 nuevos médicos de países en desarrollo, un esfuerzo sin precedentes.

Las cámaras del filme llegan hasta La Gambia, la Sudáfrica rural, las aldeas costeras de Honduras y los asentamientos fluviales en el Amazonas, donde un cubano suele ser el primer médico que una comunidad pobre haya visto jamás. En algunas naciones ellos constituyen la columna vertebral de los sistemas de salud. En todas, aceptan retos difíciles, armados con la experiencia y la filosofía de su propio modelo de salud comunitaria, preventiva y de acceso para todos, radicalmente opuesto a la tendencia global a la privatización de los servicios de salud.

¡Salud! indaga sobre la disposición de los médicos cubanos a brindar sus servicios donde muchos otros rehusan ir, y analiza las tensiones que su presencia a veces provoca.
UN FILME SOBRE LOS URGENTES TEMAS DE SALUD
QUE ENFRENTA EL MUNDO HOY EN DÍA…