FRONTLINE: Sick Around the World
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Boulder Mennonite Church
(3910 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305)
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Doors open at 6:30pm and the film begins at 7:00pm.
The film will be followed by facilitated discussion and a book signing by T.R. Reid, author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.
Present Tense is excited to bring to you, in partnership with Health Care for All Colorado, T.R. Reid and FRONTLINE's Sick Around the World.
FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies — the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland — deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.
The idea that free health is a universal human right can actually be dangerous, since it's potentially destructive to the medical profession.… Reasonably priced health, on the other hand, makes both moral and economic sense, and ultimately that's the direction in which this 'Frontline' documentary somewhat uncertainly points.
— The New York Sun, Brendan Bernhard
This is an important, most welcomed contribution to the debate over health care.
— The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn
In addition to Present Tense's film, T.R. Reid will be providing a book signing and talk at Barnes & Noble (Pearl Street & 30th in Boulder) at 2:00pm on Sunday, October 18th.