Supreme Courts Upholds Health Care Law

On Thursday, the Supreme Court largely upheld the President’s health care overhaul in a 5-4 ruling. Filmmaker Peter Nicks of The Waiting Room is taking the public’s temperature to the court’s decision on twitter @WaitingStories. Send in your feedback and use the hashtag #1in6.

The Waiting Room (heading to Independent Lens next season) goes behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. See a recent New York Times feature on the film, after the jump. 
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Waiting for Health Care

The following post was featured in Sunday’s online edition of The New York Times. The report comes from Emmy Award-winning documentary Peter Nicks whose latest film The Waiting Room goes behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. The film will air next season on PBS’s Independent Lens.

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