Our healthcare system is broken. 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. Healthcare is at the center of an intense political firestorm in our nation's capital. But the current battle over cost and access does not ultimately address the root of the problem: we have a disease-care system, not a health-care one. After decades of opposition, a movement to introduce innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing is finally gaining ground.
Direction
Heineman's patient storytelling lets outrage build naturally.
Editing
Juxtaposes bureaucratic absurdity with real human suffering.
Director
Matthew Heineman
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The title refers to a wildfire survival tactic: lighting a small fire to burn fuel before the main blaze arrives — a metaphor for preventive medicine.
Released months before Obamacare's major provisions took effect, it inadvertently captures the last moment before the ACA debate consumed all healthcare discourse.
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