Join the filmmakers behind American Hospitals and local partners for a screening and discussion of a provocative documentary about reforming America’s health care system. Screening is free and open to the public — RSVP for your seat here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-hospitals-screening-and-discussion-tickets-596196940097

Screening Event: American Hospitals – Healing a Broken System

ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks

101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, PA 18015

Monday, April 24th – 7pm-9pm

Conversation Moderated by: Wendell Potter

Panelists include:

Richard Master, CEO, MCS Industry and Executive Producer, American Hospitals

Vince Mondillo, Director and Producer, American Hospitals

Hasshan Batts, Executive Director of The Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley

Mark Pinsley, Controller of Lehigh County

Reception to follow.

About American Hospitals:

Today hospital care is too often about money and power than serving the health needs of patients and the community. “American Hospitals” examines the pernicious incentives driving health care’s astronomical pricing, its monopolistic practices and the pervasive inequities in access and treatment. The film identifies innovative solutions that deserve national attention to restore hospitals to their historic focus on community health at affordable cost.

About the filmmakers:

American Hospitals is the fourth in a series of documentaries produced by the Unfinished Business Foundation, founded by Richard Master, CEO of MCS Industries Inc., who took a deep dive into the economics of the U.S. health-care system after his company was hit year after year with double-digit health insurance rate increases. He saw the financial distress of his employees, even when insured under a supposed ”good health plan.” His decision as a businessman to make a series of films about this urgent topic and to raise public awareness stands unique in the American business landscape.

Master teamed up with filmmaker Vincent Mondillo to produce Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point; Big Pharma: Market Failure; and Big Money Agenda: Democracy on the Brink. Their latest film, American Hospitals which dissects the underlying economic structure of hospitals to determine why health-care costs are out of control and what can be done to reform the system.

The production team did over a year of in-depth research and followed up with extensive interviews that included physicians, patients and many top experts in health care economics and policy. The film is a crash course on how we can get hospital spending under control while improving quality and fairness.

American Hospitals goes beyond the typical ideological battles in health care debates and focuses on examining what’s actually happening under the hood.