How is the health care system — America’s second largest industry — hijacking public policy?
“I think the seeds of the video started with that,” Hochfeld says. Hochfeld didn’t really know where he was heading, but he began with the working title: “Our Ailing Health Care: A Physician Explores the Illness.” At first, he simply went to the library and checked out books and journals, boning up on his facts. “I had never really explored it at that level before,” says Hochfeld. As he came across people in his reading who seemed to have interesting things to say about the health care system, he tracked down their information, contacted them, and asked them if he could conduct an interview. Much to his surprise, most of them said yes. “It was unbelievable actually,” he recalls. Hochfeld ended up arranging seven interviews between Boston and Atlanta. He took a week and half out of his schedule, flew to the East Coast and began traveling from city to city. In terms of production, the original plan was to go simple: two cameras, no operator. Just Hochfeld and the interviewee. “It was goi
