Sick Around the World
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"A Frontline co-production with the Palfreman Film Group ; FRONTLINE is a production of WGBH Boston, which is solely responsible for its content."--Credits.
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.
"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 democracies -- UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan -- to see what tried and tested ideas might help us reform our broken health-care system."--Frontline web site.
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SERIES
Frontline (Television program)
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Closed-captioned.
PUBLISHED
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [2008]
Year Published: 2008
Description: 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0793694574
9780793694570
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Palfreman, Jon.
Reid, T. R.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
Palfreman Film Group.
PBS Video.
SUBJECTS
Health Care Costs -- Asia.
Health Care Costs -- Europe.
Health Care Costs -- United States.
Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Asia.
Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Europe.
Cross-Cultural Comparison -- United States.
Health Policy -- economics -- Asia.
Health Policy -- economics -- Europe.
Health Policy -- economics -- United States.
Quality of Health Care -- economics -- Asia.
Quality of Health Care -- economics -- Europe.
Quality of Health Care -- economics -- United States.
Medical care -- United States.
Medical care -- Great Britain.
Medical care -- Japan.
Medical care -- Germany.
Medical care -- Taiwan.
Medical care -- Switzerland.
Public health administration.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.