Line One: Health Care For All

Mon, November 17, 2008
Posted in Line One

NPR’s Health care for All examines how Germany, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland provide universal coverage for their citizens. As a leader of NPR’s award-winning health and science coverage, Joe Neel joins Dr. Woodard to discuss Health care for All, contrasting the U.S. and five Western European health care systems. Listen and learn about how your health care plan compares to those around the world.

Health Expenditures per Capita (Panel A), Source: New England Journal of Medicine, Oct 23, 2008

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Rates of Deaths That Could Be Averted through Medical Care (Panel B), and Rates of Infant Deaths (Panel C) in Selected Industrialized Countries. Source: New England Journal of Medicine, Oct 23, 2008

HOST: Dr. Thad Woodard

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Joe Neel, deputy senior supervising editor and a correspondent on the Science Desk, National Public Radio

LIVE BROADCAST: Mon, November 17, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.

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2 Responses to “Line One: Health Care For All”

andrew on November 17, 2008 at 2:47 pm

I believe I her a previous guest on Line One say that Medicare has overhead costs in the 10-15% range, while private insurance companies have overhead costs in the 30% range.

Is there any comparison that can be made with some of these European countries?

Thanks for the show.
Earl Krygier on November 17, 2008 at 2:49 pm

It would be good if your web page gave a call in number – you don’t repeat it often enough – but is the real cost of U.S. medical care for the aged lost in “Reverse Mortgages” which lots of famiies lose family wealth to???

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