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In Germany, health plan premiums are based on income and everyone has access to medical care—including the unemployed. Watch "Sick Around the World," April 15, 2008 on PBS and online at www.pbs.org/frontline/sickarou... .

FRONTLINE teams up with T.R. Reid, a veteran foreign correspondent for "The Washington Post," to find out how five other capitalist democracies--United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland--deliver health care and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures. In "Sick Around the World," airing Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), Reid turns up remarkable differences in how these countries handle health care--from Japan, where a night in a hospital can cost as little as $10, to Switzerland, where the president of the country tells Reid it would be a "huge scandal" if someone were to go bankrupt from medical bills.

Watch on air or online beginning April 15, now in full screen format for users with the latest Flash technology.

• Asia
• education
• European Union
• Frontline
• Germany
• health
• health care
• health insurance
• PBS
• Switzerland

Topics:

• Health
• Health: Health Care & Illnesses
• News & Public Affairs
• News & Public Affairs: Health
• News & Public Affairs: Global Affairs

Post Date: April 10, 2008