Sick Around the World

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Four in five Americans say the health care system needs fundamental change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to make medical care and insurance accessible to all? Or are countries with government-run coverage so culturally different from America that their solutions are unworkable here? In this episode of Frontline, correspondent T. R. Reid examines the public systems of other advanced capitalist democracies-including Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan-to see what ideas might help the U.S. reform its troubled approach to health care
American Health Care System (2:13)
Britain: Government-Owned Hospitals (1:30)
British Health Care: Is It Really Free? (1:19)
British Health Care: Hospitals in Competition (1:54)
British Health Care: General Practitioner (1:23)
British Health Care: Advantages of British System (1:37)
Japanese Health Care (1:39)
Private Hospitals in Japan (1:27)
Japanese Satisfaction with Health Care (1:32)
Standard Pricing on Medical Procedures (1:24)
Fixed Medical Costs in Japan (1:50)
Funding the Japanese Health Care System (1:07)
Pros and Cons of Japanese Health Care System (2:31)
German Health Care System: Bismarck Model (1:38)
Funding the German Health Care System (2:29)
Health Insurance for Unemployed (1:04)
Health Care Systems: U.S. vs. Germany (1:47)
German Doctors: Underpaid, Undervalued (2:27)
German Doctors Protest (1:02)
Comparison of Health Care Systems (0:33)
Health Care in Taiwan (2:08)
Taiwan's Health Care: National System (2:32)
Taiwan: Low Administrative Costs (1:16)
Taiwan's Health Care System Strained Financially (1:54)
Switzerland and Health Care Reform (2:24)
Switzerland: Universal Health Coverage (1:21)
Swiss Health Insurance Competition (1:37)
Switzerland: Status of Drug Companies (2:16)
Capitalistic Societies: Universal Coverage (1:08)
Limits to Universal Care (1:29)

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