Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Directed by Charles Burnett and Daniel Loewenthal2018 56mDocumentary
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Tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.
