FAQ

The first interviews began in June 2009. Other interviews and scenes were shot as late as spring of 2010 after Obamacare was implemented. Additional statistics and text data was added s late as 2014.

There are many positions on the best options in American healthcare reform. This film is somewhat biased for the Single Payer option. This is because most of the people interviewed favored Single Payer. Obamacare was originally touted as a public option. But that was not implemented in the final version of the law. The filmmaker considers Obamacare as a government mandated requirement for people to buy private healthcare insurance, and the money allocated to Obamacare was used as a publicly funded advertising campaign to sell health care insurance through private companies.

No. The law is title the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It's also known as the ACA. Obama however has no problem being attributed as the moniker of the law.

There are probably 10 or so versions. Each one was released as an update over time. The first version was two hours long. This was cut in later version to a final length of 89 minutes in the 2014 version.

The filmmaker, Jon Raymond, used an early HDV tape camera, the Canon Vixia, to shoot the film. He used a tripod as a monopod. He plugged two lavaliere Sony microphones directly into the camera, tied to the tripod. He simply attended public events such as street rallies and town hall meetings where he easily found very passionate subjects, including doctors and nurses. He edited the film himself, which took over six months for the first version, released in December 2010. He continued to add statistics and edit the film for another four years with interim releases and a final release in March 2014.

Jon did find quite a bit of help from online advisory resources and from Maureen Cruise, a retired nurse and activist. Maureen contributed in the distribution phase to help get the film out. She personally bought and distributed copies of the film to people in hr community.

No reputable sales agent was interested in acquisition of the film. Although a number of non-reputable ones were. The filmmakers believe this is due to the fact that a film that puts the commercial healthcare insurance industry in a questionable light would be bad for business. In other words there is no apparent commercial market for a film like this.

The filmmaker does have a websites where he sold a number of DVDs, and also has the film listed on Amazon.com. Although, copies are not always available.

Around 200 legal copies are in the world. The majority of these are in the earlier versions. A handful are as late as the 2013 version. The final March 2014 version has not be released or seen anywhere publicly other than on IMDb.