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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (378480)4/16/2008 2:28:43 AM
From: bentway   of 1576159
 
If you want to actually LEARN something about foreign health care systems - did you know that Japan has TWICE as many MRI machines per capita as we do? To get a scan of a certain area costs $98!
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Sick Around The World
Apr. 15, 2008
60 minutes

Sick Around The World 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.

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