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The Healthcare Divide
2021 · Film · documentary · 54 min
Directed by Rick Young
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the growing inequities in American healthcare exposed by COVID-19. The Healthcare Divide examines how pressure to increase profits and uneven government support are widening the divide between rich and poor hospitals, endangering care for low-income populations.
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One thing I read is public hospitals seem to be overwhelmed with uninsured patients who often come for emergency care because they have no other options. Private hospitals are able to grab the insured patients. Medicaid funding is not enough to pay for the cost of care for low income patients so hospitals survive on those private insurers to balance the books. There was a recent Frontline documentary about this. https://www.pbs.org/video/the-healthcare-divide-rv6npd/