Author T.R. Reid — in his quest to fix his broken shoulder — goes around the world trying to find an affordable health care system for the United States. In his tenth book, the veteran foreign correspondent of The Washington Post meets doctors and visits hospitals across five industrialized democracies. He’s on a quest for a possible solution for the United States — a country where he says 22,000 people die annually of treatable diseases and 700,000 people go bankrupt from medical bills.
In this extended interview, he discusses culture, costs and making a commitment to health care.
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11/11/2009 :: 09:43:18 AM
concerned citizen Says:
I watched the film last night and one question begs LOUDLY. . . why didn’t Reid ask the government officials in those other countries if they extend their health care benefits to illegal aliens?
Would Germany, England, Taiwan, or Japan allow 30 million illegals in their countries to be part of the system?
They would not.
So, I believe without this information, the film is useless as a tool to evaluate our own medical system.