Sick Around the World

Frontline, PBS | Apr. 17, 2008 (Special Report)

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 Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.3
 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

This story is not nearly as much of an ice-breaker as Sicko was, but it adds some information on the variety of plans available in more countries. Though the host sounds a bit like an annoying libertarian clone, he seems to get the information together without undue coloring of the results.

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