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Sick Around the World
2008 · Film · 56 min
Given the problems facing the U.S. health care system, Frontline looks at other leading capitalist democracies to see how their health care systems operate and whether those systems could be adapted for reform in the United States.
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Recent discussion on “U.S. Health Care Spending Highest Among Developed Countries” (50 days ago, 698 points, 522 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18851823
Opinion – “A Better Path to Universal Health Care: The United States should look to Germany, not Canada, for the best model.”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/opinion/health-care-germany.html
Decade old Frontline episode – “Sick Around The World: Five Capitalist Democracies and How They Do It”:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
What I don’t know is how we get from here to there. The health insurance companies are already gearing up to fight MFA – “Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill ‘Medicare for All’”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/politics/medicare-for-all-lobbyists.html