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About the Film:
In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -- deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.
A Note to Teachers:
This guide is intended for 9th to 12th grade classes in social studies, civics and government, current events, history, and language arts. As it examines how health care is delivered in five capitalist democracies in Europe and Asia, Sick Around the World explores potential answers to the crisis surrounding access to affordable health care in the United States. The guide invites teachers to use any or all of its activities. The featured lesson is based on a video clip from Sick Around the World.
The guide includes a list of questions for students to discuss after viewing Sick Around the World.
Featured Lesson Plan:
"An Urgent Choice For The United States: How To Reform Health Care"
After comparing the five health care plans presented in the film, students will propose a plan for health care reform for the United States.
U.S. Presidential Candidates' Plans To Reform Health Care
Basic Models For Providing Health Care
How Do The Veterans' Administration And Medicare Administer Health Care?
An annotated list of relevant articles and Web sites.
Purchasing the Film
DVDs of Sick Around the World are available for purchase from http://www.shoppbs.org/. Also, teachers and students can watch the film streamed in its entirety on FRONTLINE's Web site: http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld.
Credits
This teacher's guide was developed by Simone Bloom Nathan of Media Education Consultants. It was written by Ellen Greenblatt of The Bay School, San Francisco. Advisers were Debra Plafker Gutt of Stuyvesant High School, New York and Greg Timmons, curriculum writer and educational consultant.
