The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

(2018)

★ 8.6 IMDb · 19 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Runtime: 56 мин

Director: Charles Burnett, Daniel Loewenthal

Cast: Дэнни Гловер

Plot

Tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.