Diagnosing American Health Care System-- and "Sicko" too

To add on what Howard had mentioned, I also found one interesting interview about various national health systems while listening to NPR.

In 2007, NPR's "Fresh Air" broadcasted a 39-minute interview with Jonathan Oberlander, a political scientist with expertise in health care politics and policy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He mentioned “Sicko” in the interview as the jump off point for the discussion.

Listening to Professor Oberlander, I came away impressed that it was one of the most informed and dispassionate discussions of the U.S. health care system, as well as many of the other industrialized systems we have heard about.

If you want a straight down-the-middle 39-minute tour de force of leading international health care systems, as well as our own, give it a listen.
You can access it here.

In 2008, there was also a very good PBS program called,"Sick around the World". It was the "Frontline" Report on International Health Care, which was an hour long tour of the health care systems in Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland and asked what can we learn from them. I also came away impressed with this hour long tour de force "Sick Around the World" program, which I found is a constructive contribution to US national health care debate.

I strongly recommend you spend an hour online watching, "Sick Around the World."