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/ .
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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July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
American health …
American health care is great for people that don’t mind paying there share but to you liberal nuts it is no good what a joke!
July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
America’s …
America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
It finally reveals the price of the reckless ambitions of our current government… including tax increases that would take us to even higher levels than most of Europe!
July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
We da peeple let 41 …
We da peeple let 41 republican senators block us from moving forward. It’s time to change the rules!
July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Great ideas.
Great ideas.
July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
“America is not a …
“America is not a system…… it is a market”
July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
“This starts out …
“This starts out saying, “Taiwan is a small island”…
The United States has 303 million people, and a Federal Government that is not conducive to cutting costs.
It will never work here.
July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
we really need to …
we really need to fix our system..so that its humane and responsible yet not corrupt and we en up rationing off services like in the UK France and Canada…we need a productive service..the sweedes has an interesting one
July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
I wonder if any of …
I wonder if any of the presidential candidates(McCain, Obama, Hillary) covers anythings about what they should do about the US health care.
July 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
proud of Taiwan
proud of Taiwan