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An Arm and a Leg

A place where they do health care more cheaply and effectively. (And yes, it’s in the U.S.)

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

Documentary, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

For our Season 2 finale, time for some inspiration. For 30 years, James Gingerich has run a super-effective clinic in Indiana, delivering great results at low cost — to high-need, low-income patients. He’s not a modest guy,

Transcript

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0:00.0

Goshen is a small city in Northern Indiana, about 30,000 people.

0:04.3

There's a daily newspaper in English, a weekly paper in Spanish, and dozens of freight trains

0:09.6

passing through town every day tying up traffic. And I'm not going to say I came

0:14.3

looking here for solutions to the crazy price of health care. I'm just going to say

0:18.4

I came looking for signs that there might be some hope.

0:23.0

Maple City Healthcare Center has been here for about 30 years.

0:27.1

It's a neighborhood clinic.

0:28.5

It's a poor neighborhood.

0:30.1

The people here are a mix of Latinos and whites,

0:32.3

although the two groups don't always mix.

0:35.4

A long time ago, Maple City adopted a new program for expectant moms.

0:39.4

It's a model developed on the East Coast. And instead of just one-on-one prenatal visits,

0:44.4

women get together in small groups that meet for a couple of hours. The first part,

0:48.4

they get their weight and blood pressure checked and stuff like an office visit.

0:51.2

And then they sit around for an hour and a half talking about their pregnancies with each other.

0:55.0

That's James Gingrich, Maple City's founder and medical director.

0:59.0

And the professional staff is not there as the experts.

1:01.0

They are there as really group facilitators

1:03.0

to help make sure that everybody's voice is heard

1:05.0

and that everybody participates.

1:06.5

It's a cool program, but there was a problem.

1:09.0

We didn't have enough Anglo women in these groups

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