This
intensely personal story of one uninsured family's interaction with
the American healthcare system is a call to action. more than 45
million Americans like the Greens areforced to choose between financial
crisis or their health. It's a choice that not one of us should
ever have to make.
--
Andrew Stern, President
Service Employees International Union
Green's
intensity pushes the viewer out of the arm chair and into the arena
of action.... The stunning visuals and original sound track set
the tone for this hard-hitting, emotionally intense docu-drama about
real people dealing with life and death issues of a failing healthcare
system.
--
Joan Marie Malerich
Journalist
BLOODLETTING
is a tale of two countries, one rich, one poor; it's the story of
two healthcare systems: one nationalized, one profit-driven; and
it's the personal story of two regular people living without healthcare
in America.
Filmmaker
Lorna Green borrows a camera to make a documentary on Cuba's healthcare
system, revealing history, culture, and paradoxes of contemporary
Cuban life.
When
she returns to the U.S., she finds her mother, a teathcer, and her
borther, a manufacturing worker, living without health insurance.
Both become caught in a downward cycle in the ugly underbelly of
medicine for the uninsured in America. Turning the camera on her
won family, Lorna documents real life struggles of life without
a health safety net.
What
emerges is an intensely personal story, woven in with the grave
statistics and commentary on a country where 45 million people are
uninsured.
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