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 the health care systems of other advanced capitalist democraciesóUK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwanóto see what tried and tested ideas might help us reform our broken health care system.
Submitted by Judy Kanter
Filed under: General Knowledge, US Health Care