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Dr. Patch Adams, right, and Susan Parenti, a composer who's active in School for Designing a Society, enter the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign for the opening of "Health Care in All the Wrong Places."

Susan Parenti doesn't cover the Affordable Care Act in her new feature-length movie about the health care system.

Yet "Obamacare" came up as a topic after the premiere of "Health Care in All the Wrong Places" on Tuesday evening before a nearly full house at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign.

Parenti wrote the script three years ago and doesn't plan to update it.

"Why not? The Affordable Care Act doesn't change the health care system it changes the degree of access we have to that system," she told me the day after the screening.

"Health care will still be treated as a scarce commodity and be run for the sake of profit. And many of the unfortunate things that happen as a consequence of that structure will still be place under the Affordable Care Act."

Parenti's friend, Dr. Patch Adams, who appears in her movie, shot mainly in Champaign-Urbana with local actors, said Obamacare is better than what Americans have had since health care became "corporatized" in the late 1970s.

Medical care, though, remains "vulgarly expensive" and unequal, with rich people receiving better services than the poor and minorities, Adams said.

"Even though we're getting closer to a system that cares for more people, I would not be surprised if we get more hospitals for wealthy people and fewer hospitals for people with affordable policies," he said at the Art.

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Film makes 'tragi-comic' statement on health care