PSU student. Lindsay Caron, got fed up with hearing the rhetoric that “Canadian healthcare is broken”, so she took the train to Vancouver, set up a video camera on the street and starting filming. Hundreds of Canadians shared their healthcare stories. After posting the video to You Tube, a couple of Seattle producers found the footage, and morphed it into a full feature documentary comparing U.S. and Canadian systems. Historians, activists, politicians and physicians all way in on the issue in “The Healthcare Movie”.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film producers, State Representative Alissa Keny-Guyer (a legislative healthcare committee member) and representatives from Physicians for a National Health Program and Mad as Hell Doctors, Paul Hochfeld and Richard Bruno.
The Portland premiere is at Cinema 21 on NW 21st, on Sunday, April 29th at 4pm. $5 suggested donation, no one turned away!
More info on the film and its producers:
www.healthcarmovie.net
Producers:
Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg
Laurie is Canadian, and Terry is American; their two sons were born in a Calgary hospital. They moved to the Seattle area in 1992, and experienced the culture shock of switching from the worry-free health care system in Canada, to the complicated, expensive, and anxiety-provoking system in the United States.
Speaker Bios:
Paul Hochfeld
After one year of a Family Practice residency in California in 19879, Paul moved to Oregon to work as a full time Emergency Physician at what is now Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, in Corvallis. Along the way, he became board certified in Emergency Medicine, was President of Marys Peak Emergency Physicians and a member/Chairman of the hospital's Peer Review Committee. In 2007, Paul produced
a video “Health, Money and Fear”
(found at
www.OurAilingHealthCare.com) that illuminates the perverse incentives that characterize "our sick care non-system." In 2009, Paul was a founding member of Mad As Hell Doctors who traveled for a month across the country advocating for substantive health care reform.
Richard Bruno
Richard grew up in Arkansas, went to college in New Jersey, and has lived in Portland for the past six years. He is a medical student at OHSU, pursuing a career in family medicine. He is also the director of an uninsured video project called TheVacuum.org, which brings to light the difficulties inherent in being with little or no health insurance. He serves on the board of directors for Physicians for a National Health Program and works closely with the Oregon Single Payer Campaign and the Oregon chapter of Students for a National Health Program. With his wife and daughter, he enjoys hiking in Forest Park, biking, cooking, and learning Chinese.
Alissa Keny-Guyer
State Representative, serving Portland's 46th district. She is a single-payer advocate who sits on the Legislative Healthcare Commitee.
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