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By dawn in info i would like to share :)
September 8, 2009

Image LAST SUNDAY September 6, 2009 T.R. Reid Author, "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care"

Info: Our guest is T.R. Reid (Reed), author of the new book "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care." The former Washington Post reporter traveled to a variety of countries, including France, Germany, Japan, India, Canada, and the United Kingdom, for a first hand look at their health care systems. He also looks at the moral question of the right to equal health care notwithstanding ability to pay. In addition to this book, T.R. Reid is also the author of "Confucius Lives Next Door,""The United States of Europe," and "The Chip." During his years with the Washington Post, his jobs included Bureau Chief in Tokyo and London. Your text to link...

please take the time to listen to a rational point of view and attempt at fixing our health care.

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  • Malaise Malaise Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    I couldn't get your link to work, so I found these two other interviews on him and the research he's done. Thanks very much. It looks really interesting. I've been looking at France's model, also.

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontli...

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    Beyond that, we were looking for examples of each of the established models of health care systems. The U.K. uses the Beveridge model; Taiwan has chosen the Canadian-style National Health Insurance [NHI] model; Germany, Japan and Switzerland use the Bismarck model. We went to three Bismarck countries on the theory that these private-sector systems are more relevant to America than a British-style National Health Service.

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    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health...

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    T.R. REID: Well, all the other countries manage to cover everybody with high quality and spend half as much as we do. And I was trying to figure out, how do they do that?

    You know, in Germany, you can pick any one of 200 health insurance plans. If you don't like your plan, you can switch to the other guy, with no increase in premium. How do they do that?

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    September 10, 2009 at 7:19 p.m.

  • dawn dawn Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    this was from the program Q&A on c-span

    September 8, 2009 at 10:45 a.m.