We have a disease-care system, not a healthcare system. Potent forces
fight to maintain the status quo in a medical industry created for quick
fixes, rather than prevention—for profit-driven, rather than
patient-driven, care. After decades of opposition, a movement to
introduce innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and
healing is finally gaining ground. With consummate skill, the directors
of this film interweave dramatic personal stories with the testimony of
leaders battling to transform healthcare at the highest levels of
medicine, industry, government, and even the U.S. military. Escape Fire
offers a way out—a primer on how to save the health of a nation.
"Destined to be hailed as the definitive film on American healthcare.”
– David Courier (Sundance Senior Programmer)
Sundance Nominee for Grand Jury Prize 2012