Answer the following questions based on the video PBS Frontline:Sick Around the WorldinModule 5:

1. How are the global healthcare systems presented in the video set up?Think about private or nationalized care and insurance.

2. What are some of the consequences you can see of these systems considering wait times and price setting

3. What are people paying and what does healthcare cost in these systems?

4. What are three requirements for these systems to work?

5.Provide some general information from the documentary film by filling in the spaces below and attaching the questions and answers as part of your assignment (to score 20 marks for this assignment in total you must get a minimum of 11 of these 13 correct)

a) In American there are ........ million people without healthcare coverage.

b) Number of medical bill-related bankruptcies in Switzerland each year is ......

c) According to the World Health Organization, the US healthcare system rates...... th in the world in terms of quality and fairness

d) US citizens have longer/shorter life expectancy and high/lower infant mortality than the other countries in this documentary (choose the correct one in each case)

e)Britain pays for its health care system from tax revenues/insurance premiums collected from citizens/insurance premiums collected from employers (choose one)

f).......% of people who use Britain's National Health Service (NHS) think it is good or excellent

g)In Japan ......% of people are covered by the health system.Japan spends ......%as much per person as the US on healthcare.They have the longest life expectancy in the world and the lowest infant mortality.

h) Japanese visit the doctors ....times as often as Americans

i) An MRI of your neck in Denver, Colorado costs $.......... In Japan it costs $....... In Japan a doctor can stitch a cut of less than 6 square inches for the government controlled price of ..... Yen (US$........)

j)In Germany admin costs are .......% of all healthcare costs. In the US that number is approximately.......%

k)German doctors pay malpractice premiums about .........% of what their fellow US doctors would pay. Medical school costs .......... in Germany.

l) Switzerland administrative costs are .........% of all healthcare costs

m)In the US ................. people a year go bankrupt due to medical bills. This is number is ............. in Switzerland.

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