Category: Health Care Alternatives

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Medicare for All (VB #121.11) :
Interviews with nurses, a social worker and others who explain the problems with the current fragmented US health care system and how the new system would work. (12/13/21) --Clip--

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Equal Healthcare for All (parts 1&2) (VB #119.05&06) :
Organizers, health care professionals, and others explained how universal coverage would work, how it would benefit us all, and how it would be funded (5/3/21) Streaming • --Clip--

Elyn Saks: Making Peace with Mental Illness (parts 1&2) (VB #105.01&02) :
The professor of law and psychology describes her struggles with schizophrenia and how she managed to craft a viable life for herself in the face of a dire prognosis. 10/2/17 Streaming

Plant-Powered Nutrition (parts 1&2) (VB #95.08&09) :
Sharon Palmer, dietician and author, explains nutritional needs specific to vegetarian and vegan diets. 5/25/15
GMOs: A Risky Business (parts 1&2) (VB #93.02&03) :
Consumer advocate Jeffrey Smith explains the risks of Genetically Modified Organisms in our food in a September 2014 presentation. 10/13/14
Jim Gottstein: Psych Rights Workshop (parts 1&2) (VB #85.03&04) :
The founder of Psych Rights describes his personal history and efforts of the organization to end forced drugging -- particularly for children-- and electroshock. 10/12
Rethinking Psychiatry 2012 (parts 1&2) (VB #84.04&05) :
Symposium looking at alternatives to psychotropic drugs, forced medication, and subjecting youth to these "remedies," featuring a keynote talk by Jim Gottstein of PsychRights and three other speakers. 7/12
Rethinking Psychiatry (parts 1&2) (VB #80.08&09) :
Robert Whitaker facilitates a panel discussion on the current national movement to create a mental health care system that is safer, more holistic, effective and humane. . 8/11 --Clip--
Is Dairy Healthy? (parts 1&2) (VB #82.02&03) :
Amy Joy Lanou, author of "Building Bone Vitality," speaking at VegFest 2011 about the health hazards of including milk and cheese in Americans' diets. 1/12
Dr. Margaret Flowers: Health Care For All (VB #79.11) :
The national advocate shares statistical and historic information about problems created by for-profit corporations managing health care. 6/11 --Clip-- • Streaming
Rep. John Conyers: Single Payer Health Care (VB #80.4) :
An interview with the national civil rights leader covers topics such as President Obama?s approach to Health Care and new ways to describe the single payer idea. 7/11 --Clip-- • Streaming
Just Say No to Psychiatric Drugs? (parts 1&2) (VB #77.04&05) :
Award-winning journalist Robert Whitaker on his comprehensive survey of research on psychiatric medications and his unexpected conclusions 10/10
Fat Vegan No More (parts 1&2) (VB #74.13&75.01) :
John McDougall, MD shares how a low-fat, plant and starch-based diet promotes health benefits and weight loss. 3/10
- MindFreedom: Mental Health Choice and Empowerment (VB #66.13) :
  A panel representing mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors voice their views on how to further organize for change in the mental health system. 3/08
- Benefits of a Plant Based Diet (VB #65.12) and
  Good Health at Any Age (VB #65.13) :
  Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. on how to prevent heart disease and strokes; John Robbins on the benefits of a vegan lifestyle and changes in the publishing industry. 12/07
- Howard Lyman: Voice for a Viable Future (parts 1&2) (VB #54.04&05) :
  Vegan former cattle rancher speaks of his efforts to change human health through diet, and being sued for "disparaging meat" on Oprah Winfrey's show. 1/05
- Diverse Abilities: Who Defines the Box? (VB #41.3) :
  People who have various physical and psychological abilities seek to define their community and empower each other in interviews and workshops at a May, 2001 conference. 10/01
- Psychiatric Support Coalition International (parts 1&2) (VB #37.05&06) :Psychiatric survivor David Oaks' keynote speech to the 2000 End Corporate Dominance Conference ties pharmaceutical profits to mistreatment of the mentally ill. 60 min. 10/00
- Fun With Medicine (parts 1&2) (VB #24.07&08) :Patch Adams, MD, clown and author, talks about his free hospital, Gesundheit, and other medical issues with passion and humor. 60 min. 8/97
- Corporate Psychiatry (Torture in the USA) (Parts 1&2) (VB #30.05&06) :Mental Health activists David Oaks and Lisa Clay on how pharmaceutical companies and others are getting rich off of people's mental/emotional pain. 30 min. 2/99
- Homeopathy: Natural Health Care (VB #28.01) :Homeopathic physician explains healthy lifestyles, vegetarian diets, and natural remedies are better than corporate drugs. 30 min. 8/98
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