If you didn't get a chance to watch the latest episode of Frontline on PBS, I highly recommend that you take the time to see it. It will help you to understand how other advanced countries have organized their health care systems, and the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.

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This piece advances our knowledge of how health care provides better access at lower cost in other countries, while maintaining acceptable standards of quality. It dispels the belief by many Americans that only the profit motive can drive people and organizations to excel -- particularly in health care. It also shows how universal coverage can work, without necessarily going to a single payer system -- even in countries like Germany that are far more liberal than the U.S.

We can learn a lot from this program as we ready ourselves for the challenging task of transforming our health care system in the next several years.