San Francisco - The Supreme Court made a landmark 5-4 decision Thursday to uphold
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rallied Justices Stephen
Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor for the
landmark 5-4 decision to uphold President Obama's
health care plan. |
President Obama's health care mandate that includes a provision for most
Americans to have health care. As part of the Summer@LHT Series, "The
Waiting Room" by Peter Nicks will screen Saturday, June 30 at the
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, 450 Post Street@ Powell, Union Square. Can
art bring light to the Obamacare/scare debate? Find out by attending the
screening of "The Waiting Room."
"The Waiting Room" is a character-driven documentary film that uses
extraordinary access to go behind the doors of Highland Hospital
struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. The
film - using a blend of cinema verité and characters' voiceover -
offers a raw, intimate, and even uplifting look at how patients, staff
and caregivers each cope with disease, bureaucracy and hard choices.
Nicks' documentary is an intense day-in-the-life portrait of people
in need of medical care, and the doctors, nurses and social workers
that provide for them. As the pendulum swings from the underemployed to
chronically destitute, the patients present a stark portrait of
America's dual economic and healthcare crises: a middle-aged man with
agonizing spinal bone spurs who must continue to work to pay the bank
to keep his home; an addict with severe breathing issues with few
options; and a 15-year-old gunshot victim whose body is temporarily
held as crime scene evidence, among other life vignettes, "The Waiting
Room" paints a picture of America's health care realities.
A panel discussion will follow the film to include Director Peter
Nicks, Dr. Mack Roach, III, internationally renowned UCSF radiation
oncologist, with moderator veteran journalist Brenda Payton, former
columnist at the Oakland Tribune.
Reserved Tickets for "The Waiting Room" start at $15.00. Use Coupon Code:
Hospital for 20% on all tickets.
Summer@LHT
Series brings awareness and support of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
Next event Tony Saunders "Romancing the Bass," August 10th.
Find out more visit
www.lhtsf.org.
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