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January 23, 2007
Collateral
Damage: Bad Medicine in Tennessee
When Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee announced he would reform his state’s Medicaid program, people took him at his word. Little did they know that Bredesen’s idea of reform meant cutting 190,000 people off the program almost overnight.
The size and speed of the cuts were unprecedented; the suffering they caused was immeasurable. The sickest, neediest people were denied medical care while the nation sat by and watched, and the Governor boasted to other heads of states about his success reigning in the rising cost of health care.
This intense, moving film exposes the injustice that occurred in Tennessee and its implications for Medicaid cuts nationwide. In the richest nation in the world, where people die every day because they lack access to health care, the disparities revealed in this film are chilling.
Families USA is proud to announce the premiere of:
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Bad Medicine in Tennessee
A film by Julie Winokur and Talking Eyes Media
Premiering at Health Action 2007, Saturday, January 27 at 9am
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC
This 25-minute video is a candid exposé
on the single largest Medicaid cuts in history. Experience
the catastrophic impact of these cuts on a few of the 170,000 Tennesseans
who lost coverage and whose lives are on the line.
Watch
a sneak preview of the film at http://www.talkingeyesmedia.org/collateraldamage_film.php
Collateral Damage is a powerful tool to share with your community and spread awareness about the future of public health care. DVDs are available online (www.talkingeyesmedia.org) or at the conference at the special rate of $5 each.
Go to: http://www.tenncare.org/tenncare/index_tenncare.html or www.tnjustice.org for more information about the TennCare cuts.
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