Health care in the United States is broken.
To fully understand how severe of a crisis we’re in, people from all over California told us about their experiences with a system in dire need of reform.
Call your member of congress today:
877-264-4226
About Stories of Health
After spending an afternoon hearing about emergency room visists, people getting dropped by their insurance companies, losing money, family members and even homes, we were inspired.
We knew that if these stories were heard — that if you watched something more dramatic than a squirrel — you’d understand just how badly this country needs real health care.
Please shared these stories with your friends. Email them; tweet them; post them to your Facebook wall; project them on the sides of buildings.
Please help reform health care in the United States. Whether it’s a phone call, email, office visit to a congressperson or conversation with your friend, every little bit helps.
Who made this
Stories of Health was created by Stanford Williams and Paul Schreiber.
Contact us/Press
For more information, including media inquiries, email info @ storiesofhealth.org.
Acknowledgements
Thank you first and foremost to our storytellers. Thank you so much for opening up to us and sharing something so personal.
This project couldn't have been done without the help and generosity of many others. Special thank-yous to Peter Gulezian for the tripod, Todd Dailey for the camera, Aaron Owen for the 30-minute Final Cut lesson, Faruk Ateş for the design comp and David Evan Harris and Adina Levin for advice. Early editing was done on Tony D’Souza’s monitor. Dagmar Berendes leant us a laptop for a road trip.
Credits
Our terrific logo was created by Carter Millican. The trailers were lovingly put together by the immensely talented Meghan Newell with music from the amazing Janet Robin.
Colophon
Stories of Health was created in Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and TextMate. It’s powered by Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Sortable, Passenger, Apache and Ubuntu.
Copyright
Stories of Health is © 2009 Paul Schreiber and Stanford Williams. The HTML, CSS, JavaScript, layout and text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. We retain full rights to the videos and logo. The videos, are, of course, on YouTube, and we encourage you to embed them everywhere.