Bibliograph

Sick around the world, written by Jon Palfreman and T.R. Reid ; produced and directed by Jon Palfreman

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Label

Sick around the world, written by Jon Palfreman and T.R. Reid ; produced and directed by Jon Palfreman

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

Sick around the world

Oclc number

230824328

resource.otherEventInformation

Originally broadcast as segments of the television program Frontline on April 15, 2008

Responsibility statement

written by Jon Palfreman and T.R. Reid ; produced and directed by Jon Palfreman

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Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

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

Technique

live action

Classification