FRONTLINE | “Sick Around the World” Coming April 15 | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/ Other rich countries have universal health care. Why don’t we? FRONTLINE travels to five countries in search of a universal health care system that could work in the U.S. in “Sick Around the World,” coming April 15 to PBS and online at
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
FRONTLINE teams up with T.R. Reid, a veteran foreign correspondent for “The Washington Post,” to find out how five other capitalist democracies–United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland–deliver health care and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures. In “Sick Around the World,” airing Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), Reid turns up remarkable differences in how these countries handle health care–from Japan, where a night in a hospital can cost as little as $10, to Switzerland, where the president of the country tells Reid it would be a “huge scandal” if someone were to go bankrupt from medical bills.
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http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/ To design a new comprehensive health care system, officials in Taiwan looked abroad for ideas, borrowing from the best and avoiding the worst—including what they found in the U.S. Watch “Sick Around the World,” April 15, 2008 on PBS and online at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/ .
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
What do you want? Our presidential candidates pull health care plans out of a hat, ignoring the reform experiences of other countries. PBS Frontline examines other systems that could cut costs, improve care and eliminate the uninsured. This piece compares U.S., Swiss and Taiwanese systems. Systems that are probably acceptable to the U.S. and similar to existing U.S. models. Also, makes the point that we don’t have a “system,” but a health care “market.” There is no oversight to serve or protect consumers.