Sick around the world [dvd] / a Frontline co-production with the Palfreman Film Group ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written by Jon Palfreman and T.R. Reid ; produced and directed by Jon Palfreman.
Correspondent: T.R. Reid. Originally produced as a segment of the television program Frontline, April 15, 2008. Special feature: Teacher's guide (DVD-Rom).
Contents:
1. Great Britain: a leader in preventive medicine -- 2. Japan: universal coverage, no gatekeepers -- 3. Germany: a popular largely market-based system -- 4. Taiwan: a new system they copied from others -- 5. Switzerland: its former system resembled ours.
Summary:
"Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs 'fundamental' change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid examines first-hand how other advanced capitalist democracies - the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland - deliver healthcare, and what the United States might learn from their successes and failures" -- Container.
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