Did anyone watch 'Sick Around the World' on last night's Frontline? T.R. Reid comparison-shopped health care systems in the USA, the UK, Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan (there may have been one or two others).

(It struck me as very strange that he didn't visit Canada)

For the first time I have hope that universal health care will come to the US in the near future. What kind it will be is more problematic but I have hope. As I've said many times before, there is no need to re-invent the wheel; cherry-picking elements of the various systems is the way to go. That is what Taiwan did.