FRONTLINE – Sick Around the World

Posted by Chris Pace on November 10, 2009 under News | Be the First to Comment

In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies — the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland — deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures. Full episode after the jump

Part 1 – Great Britain: A Leader in Preventative Medicine

Part 2 – Japan: Universal Coverage, No Gatekeepers

Part 3 – Germany: A Popular, Largely Market-Based System

Part 4 – Taiwan: A New System They Copied From Others

Part 5 – Switzerland: Its Former System Resembled Ours

You can also view this directly at PBS by going to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/

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