"Sick Around The World"

Perhaps my favorite part of the special Sick Around the World was how each segment of the film tended to focus on the positives and negatives of many more successful healthcare systems around the world than in the United States. Then, near the conclusion of the film (in both a sort of review and collage of previous ideas) the directors presented the Swiss healthcare system that appears to draw from a variety of the systems detailed in the film in an effort to create the most successful model possible. What I enjoyed about this approach was that it helped make a healthcare system completely foreign to Americans seem much more understandable and inviting, given the success that the smaller elements have provided to the other countries and Switzerland as a whole. It makes the idea of fixing the healthcare situation in the United States much less scary and (apparently) much more simple. It may not be a completely new revolutionary cure-all that most Americans are hopeful for, but its a system that is proven to yield great results in a variety of areas, something the United States desperately needs in its health care sector right now.