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.