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Frontline - US Healthcare Sick Around The World
Four in five Americans say the United States' health-care system needs 'fundamental' change. Can the US 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 how other advanced capitalist democracies--the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland--deliver healthcare, and what the United States might learn from their successes and failures. -
Frontline - Sick Around America Sick Around America
As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses--potentially forcing millions more Americans to go without health insurance--Frontline travels the country examining the nation's broken health care system and explores the need for a fundamental overhaul. Veteran Frontline producer Jon Palfreman dissects the private insurance system, a system that not only fails to cover 46 million Americans but also leaves millions more underinsured and at risk of bankruptcy. -
Frontline Generation Like
Thanks to social media, today's teens are able to directly interact with their culture - artists, celebrities, movies, brands, and even one another - in ways never before possible. But is that real empowerment? Or do marketers still hold the upper hand? In Generation Like, author and Frontline correspondent Douglas Rushkoff explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media - and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with these young consumers. Do kids think they're being used? Do they care? Or does the perceived chance to be the next big star make it all worth it?
