Opisy(1)
The story of an historic yet little known struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans is illuminated with photos and archival footage revealing how the federal government, with crucial support from medical professionals and civil rights activists, leveraged Medicare funding to bring down the Jim Crow hospital system. After WWII, the federal government expanded funding for hospitals, creating a modern medical network of segregated and de facto segregated hospitals throughout the United States. But by the early 1960s, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, African American doctors and dentists mounted legal and legislative challenges to hospital segregation and organized a Medical Civil Rights Movement demanding that the federal government take action against segregation in the medical system. When the Medicare Bill passed just a year after the Civil Rights Act, it presented a golden opportunity by requiring that Medicare-approved hospitals not be segregated. Given a deadline of just a few months to certify that at least 70% of hospital facilities comply with the desegregated requirement before the Medicare Bill could take effect, the federal government recruited an army of hospital inspectors, many of whom where chased by the Klan and followed by local police. But working closely with local civil rights activists, the inspectors fanned out across the nation in a race against time. If the race was lost, the Medicare Bill would die. (Pan African Film Festival)
(więcej)Obsada
Danny Glover (narrator)
Stany Zjednoczone
Najlepsze filmy:
Zabójcza broń (1987)
Zabójcza bron 2 (1989)
Piła (2004)