poster for MDM A caveat - unless you've been living in a cave, on Mars, with your fingers in your ears and refusing to check your RSS feed, you are probably, like any right thinking person, thoroughly sick of listening to the health care debate. That's entirely understandable. But being tired of hearing about it doesn't make the issue any less pressing, and as health care reform gets closer and closer to law, we've all got to pay attention, just for a little while longer. If only paying attention to was more compelling. Is there no prescription for our health care fatigue?
Enter Money Driven Medicine, playing Sunday night at the Northwest Film Forum. Producer Alex Gibney has a gift for taking the headlines of the day and turning them into carefully crafted, eminently watchable documentaries like his 2007 Academy Award winner Taxi to the Dark Side. If there is any way to make talking about the American health care system seem novel and fresh again, Gibney is about the best candidate to do so.
