You know those episodes of “House” in which Hugh Laurie, or one of the members of his team, hits upon the right diagnosis for the wrong reasons? He might guess correctly that a patient has a blood infection, but in getting the cause of that infection wrong, doesn’t treat the source. Sometimes he even makes the problem worse.

That’s what “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare” is like. Except it doesn’t offer the solace of Laurie’s piercing blue eyes in exchange for its tendentious diagnosis.