Escape Fire Pros And Cons

Escape Fire is an informative film about the serious problems in the United States’ healthcare. Seventy-five percent of the 2.7 trillion dollars we spend on healthcare in this country is spent on treating diseases that are largely preventable, such as heart disease and diabetes. This is happening because of how our healthcare does not want us to die, and does not want us to get help. This is how they make most of their money. If we want to change this statistic, we can start giving the care needed to our population to help and prevent them from obtaining the illnesses which are preventable instead of just treating those who already have the diseases without informing others how to not end up with the same diseases.
When medical care is highly specialized, there is more of a cost inflicted on the patients and some can not afford the treatment necessary to help them. Most doctors are not given the chance
The $395 billion US pharmaceutical industry spent $5.2 billion on advertising prescription drugs directly to consumers in 2015. All of this money spent on advertising could have been spent on helping people lower the risk of suffering from their diseases. We are probably still advertising prescription drugs because of the money and how it makes people think that it is helping them while it is also harming them. Yvonne Osborne, followed in Escape Fire, has been in treatment for heart disease for the past 15 years. Instead of lowering the impact heart disease has on her life, she is given heart surgery every time something life-threatening happens to her due to heart disease. This is not how people should be treated because instead of treating her and helping her solve the dilemma her heart disease has inflicted onto her life, she pays a fortune on repairs and fixes on problems that could have been avoided if she was given the correct care in the first