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Public Television's Frontline aired a program tonight called Sick Around the World that takes a look at how 5 different countries achieve universal health care. After looking at these 5 wealthy capitalized countries they find...
It's not all socialized medicine in the capitalist democracies examined in this report, but they don't trust health care entirely to the free market, either.It is clear there is a lot of room for improvement in the United States' health care system. The United States spends the most of any country on health care, but are far from covering everyone.
The program comes up with these 3 conclusions on how the United States can improve its health care system...
1. Insurance companies must accept everyone and can't make a profit on basic care.If I get the time later in the week, I will post more on the details in each country, but I encourage you to watch the program online here.
2. Everyone must buy into insurance and the government pays premiums for the poor.
3. Doctors and Hospitals must accept one standard set of fixed prices.
2 comments:
Meyers running in the 4th has experience in this and you should interview him on it when you work this story.
Experience can lead the way.
Did you see the Bunk study stating 2/3 of doctors in America want National Health Care. The doctors who did this study also conducted one in 2002 and found that the majority of doctors did not want national health care, the problem with this is that the 2 question surveys drastically differ in there 2nd question. I found this article, 60% of Physicians Surveyed Oppose Switching to a National Health Care Plan, It's worth a read
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