Join LA Councilman Bill Rosendahl for a debate on Health Care on Film

• Michael Moore's Sicko shows the U.S. system leaving millions of Americans behind and allowing insurance companies to profit by denying care to patients, while people in Canada, Cuba, and Britain receive quality care free of charge.
• American film-maker Stuart Browning interviews Canadian patients for his Free Market Cure video series and comes to the opposite conclusion: Canadian patients wait in long lines for care and have poor access to the latest technology and medicines.
• Les Invasion Barbares, Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004, documents the struggles of a cancer patient fighting bureaucracy and union power in a Montreal hospital.
• Do these films provide an accurate or complete picture? Clips from SiCKO and the Moving Picture lnstitute will serve as a launching pad for a discussion of health care system failures, domestic and foreign, by a panel of three experts from Canada, Britain, and the U.S.

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Panel

Moderator: Bill Rosendahl, Los Angeles Council District I1

Stuart E. Browning is the Chairman & Co-Founder of On The Fence Films, and Fellow of The Moving Picture Institute. A film producer, software entrepreneur and health policy commentator, he is currently producing a series of short Internet films on health care freedom, available at www.freemarketcure.com, and regularly speaks across the country about the myths of "single-payer" medicine.

Matthew Holt is a well regarded researcher and forecaster, and has worked with many leading healthcare companies. Before launching his own consulting practice, Mr. Holt served as the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at i Beacon. Prior to joining iBeacon, he served with Harris Interactive, the leading healthcare survey research company. From 1993 to 1998, he led the healthcare practice at the lnstitute for the Future in Menlo Park, California.

John R. Graham is Director of Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. He is the author of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, the only project to rank all 50 states' health laws and regulations according to free-market principles; and the editor of a book addressing What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free Market Primer. He has also written numerous articles on health reform for a number of periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a patient in Canada, Britain, Germany, and the U.S.

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For further information contact Cindy Chin at (415) 955-6110 or cchin@pacificresearch.org