He's based here in New York, and he joins us today in our New York studios. Because at this program that's here, there's yoga. In Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare", director Matthew Heineman exposes what he sees as flaws in the U.S. healthcare system, such as … A powerful and thought-provoking documentary that exposes the U.S. healthcare system as one designed to profit on disease rather than health. He is also the director of the Defense and Veterans Center for Integrated Pain Management in Rockville, Maryland. Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2014, I thought this documentary did a nice job of digging into the reasons why our healthcare costs are so astronomical. I strongly recommend the movie ESCAPE FIRE as a way to summarize some of what is happening in American healthcare and some of what motivates me to do the work I do. And how do you make it entertaining, as well? Dr. And sometimes, particularly in conflict, those standards don't necessarily serve us as well in that extreme environment. III: Well, I do want to congratulate Matt Heineman on "Escape Fire." Co-directed by Matthew Heineman and Academy Award® nominee Susan Froemke (Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton), this thought-provoking documentary exposes a U.S. healthcare system designed to profit from disease not health, reward quantity over quality, and promote high-tech over high-touch. So I think what I'm optimistic about is that change will happen institution by institution, community by community, and that hopefully collectively that change will inspire, you know, this epidemic of rising health care costs. Anybody else would laugh, you know? Video availability outside of United States varies. I'm Ira Flatow along with Flora Lichtman. The film makes a strong argument that US healthcare is … Last week on the show, we talked about the Affordable Care Act - you know, Obamacare - and how it gave millions more Americans access to health care. LICHTMAN: I'd like bring on another guest now who can talk to us more about this, about some of the ways that the military is treating and dealing with soldiers' pain. All rights reserved. Sign in to see videos available to you. And so, you know, we wanted to look at the military both to highlight this problem and to highlight how they were trying address it, looking at alternative means to deal with it. ESCAPE FIRE exposes the perverse nature of American healthcare, contrasting the powerful forces opposing change with the compelling stories of pioneering leaders and the patients they seek to help. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. I am working hard to go beyond the status quo in many ways and I motivate my patients to do the same for their own health. Co-directed by Matthew Heineman and Academy Award®-nominee Susan Froemke (Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton), Escape Fire looks at a U.S. healthcare system designed to profit on disease not health, reward quantity over quality, and promote high-tech over high-touch. How did it come to be? I'm Flora Lichtman. So... FLATOW: Say - but you had a big task, because didn't Michael Moore make a whole film on health care system? We're talking with Matthew Heineman, who is director and producer of "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare." Figuratively, it is an improvised, effective solution to a problem that can’t be solved by traditional methods. Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2014. Overview System Requirements Related.