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The Healthcare Divide
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The Healthcare Divide

53 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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More than 70 million people in the United States depend on Medicaid, while roughly 30 million have no insurance at all. This film examines that gap through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, which pushed millions of newly unemployed Americans into the ranks of the uninsured just as hospitals filled with the sick. Interviews with patients, doctors, and health-policy voices trace what happens when a medical emergency meets a system built around employer coverage and means-tested programs. The film follows people navigating clinics, emergency rooms, and insurance paperwork, showing how a missed premium or a lost job can mean the difference between treatment and going without. It lays out the numbers behind the Medicaid rolls and the uninsured population side by side, letting the disparity speak for itself rather than arguing a single fix. The result is a plain accounting of who gets care in America, who doesn't, and how the pandemic exposed the cracks that were already there.