tonight on "worldfocus" -- after the preside's speech to coness, we will show you theritish view of the americ health care debate, hothey see it. as the debate res in this cotry about treating illeg immiants, we will take you to a place in south americahere all foreignerget medical care, no questions asked. soul searching after that raid by british forces in afghanistan scued a "new york times" reporter but resulted in the death of an afgh journalist. >> anour signature seres on women in t muslim world. they wanted play just like th men. how tese turkish won formed a leag of their own. from the world'sleading reporters and analyst, here's what's happening from arnd the world. this is "worldfocus." made possible in part by the llowing funders -- major support has ao been provided by the peter g. peters foundation, dedicated to promoting fiscal reonsibility and addressi key econoc challenges facing america's futu. good eveni. i'm daljit dhawal. the day after president bama's speech on heth care reform, we thought thatt wod be useful to lk at the issue tonight from a different perspecti. global health ca, of course, is one of ur core isss here on "worldfocus so we wondered, how is the american debatebeing reported overseas particularly in a country that has a long hisry of universal healthre? that country is e united kingdo and tonight, we nt to showou how ourartner there fred its covera leading up to president obama's speech. how they, ieffect, see us. lindsey hilsum's report on america's struggle withealth care is our lead focusonight and it begins in ie, pennsylvania >> cardiac arrest, an elderly man in urgent need of treatment at the hospital inries in all americanospital, by law, they havto treatnyone who showsp in the emergency room, whether they have heal insurance or n. >> morepeople eier are working and don'tave insurance or lose their jobs and don't have insurance. and they g sick and they present themsees to us but it's notconomically sustnable. >> the free clinic in nearby cleveland, the last rort of the uninred. people like miles steve whose diabetes was treated t late. the reform being propod but created governmentnsuranceo drive down costs. but opponent say that wouldn't only be unir competition but e first step on t road to socialm. a messagehat's got throh to some of the uniured themselves. >> i don't know about the government controllingt. that's a littl scary t me, as faas like socialism and stuff, things like that. >>p the rd, the clevela clinic provis the best of amican health care. it looks more lke a hotel than hospital. one of america's top cardiologists showed me arou opponents sayniversal health care coverage would lor the standard. he ss the cost isn't the tenology but the administration oprivate insurance clai. >> we're sending 17% of our oss national product on heah care and we'reess healthy than u are in the uk. we don'tive as long. on most metcs -- >> but you can getare in this cardlogy unit you can't getn britain. >> right. i want to have the bes of both worlds and i beeve it is possible. we have to elimite waste. if we don't spen 29%f evy dollar on ministrative costs for r health insurance programs, that money can be used to maintain the standard of care. >> in the cardiac unit, the da vin si rot performs hd surgery. thmachine costs almost $2 million. president ama must convin american tt is his reform will retain this high thnology and providinsurance toore people. but a cost the countryan afford. lindsey lsum, channel 4 news cleveland, ohio. >> if you saw president ama's speech lt night, then you will recallhat outburst b one republican who accud the present of lying when he sai democratic pposals would not cover illegal immigrants. as we continue our look at how other countries provide health care, we want to tke you to argentina, whi provides care for all,ncluding foreigners. that story tonight from tree so bo of al jersey english. . >> this a common in seen in argentina's puic hospitals. this womacame from peru and stl an illegal resident. in spite of hestatus, t health care stem is a universal righand anyone has e right to be treated. dr. jose las is the dector of the fernandezospital in buen aires. he says he's pud of argentina's will ttreat everyone. >> whave buses that come from the neiboring countries fille with peoplthat need to be ken care of. we perform colex surgees like cardiovascular surgery, t also basic treatme. the system was thoug of when arntina was a rich count decades ago. >>in argentina, the public health care stem is mostly used by those o caot afford to pay a private insurance and it is finced through tas. th hospal treats argentinean annongentineans for fe in exactlthe same way. but manhere are sing that argentina is a poor count and caot subsidize the health of patien coming from neighbori countries. most argentines believe the blic system has aerious struural detioration and ineffiency. many patients have to wait for hours aneven days to get treated. er the lastew yes, immigration from oer latin american nations has creased sharplynd that's created a percepti among some here that public health care isbeing overused bforeigners. we fund th argentinean man outside another hospital. >> there are things missg that shouldn't be missing. i had three surgeries inhis hospital, and there are no doctors, no medicines. the governme should ask the government of bolivia to open up their own place. they come here bause they know it for free. >> b those who sty argentina's health stem say it's unfair to blame foreigners for all the problems >> public sect caacity has en decreasing over the years which al means less funng for it. and a priority in other offers of health name drugs, phmaceuticals, which is excessive, and the private seor which tries to encroach the amount of money available. >> but those coming from abroad say they're thankful for the treatmt they receive because in ste of the problemsn the system, they're sti able to get treatment that in the countries theyould not afford. teresa bo, al jazra, buenos aires. >> for more on healtcare around thworld, we are joined by vicr rodwin, a professor of heth policy and management at theagner school at new york university. professor dwin oftenrites about heah care in other countrs. welcome to "worldfocus." thank you very much. >> how is the u.s. health care debate being pceived overseas? do people in the rest of the world understand why it is provoking suchtrong reaction here? >> i think people a peplexed. they don'tnderstand this notion of government-run health care from e pointf view of our bate, t notion that government bureaucrats would be making clinical decions. i think they don't understandit in britain and i think -- i know more about this. they don't underand it in france theyove obama. they thought he was ing to do great change and theyon't understand this popular reaction ainst the heal plan based on a notion of a govement takeover. >> what does the tercialized medici mean to a eurean? >> socialized medicine mea medine both financed d provided by the statwith the outlaw of any ivate sector whsoever. there are very few casef socialized medicine in the world today. certainlin britain that has a health care servic that's not cialized medicine because yu have a private sector you ve a supplementy private insurance sect and private autonomy. you have nothing resemble this type of medicine. medicare in the united states is not socialid medice. medicare in the united states public fincing with private provision. >> so could any of these countries tt you've bee descbing be used as a model for the alth care system in the united states? >> franc represents an intesting model because there is a lar privatesecto there is a tradion o rugged individualism. at the samtime, there's a traditn of social solidarit so that everye is cored under a univerl health insurae plan andetthe provision is largely an office-based private servi practice, someing we know well the united states. in prance, theyegard our group practices, o hmos as something resemblingore socializedypes of edicine. but under nation health insurae systems, the physicians are fierce autonomous and ficely inpendent and value their dividual relationships wit their patients. clinical decisions are not made the state, neither in bitain nor in france norn the united states under the medicare ogram. >> okay, victo rodwin, ank you very mucfor joining us. thank you very much for having me. we also want to get yo ew. our questiononight is, are you convincethat health care in the united states is agood as that in otherevelopmented cotries? . ll us what u think by going to the "h you see it" page on the our bsite, worldfocus.org. in iraq today, a suicide truck bomber attacked a kurdish village in t northern partf the country. it happened in wardek, not far from the city of mosul just after midnight, attening a neigorhood. at least9 people were kied and 30 otherwere wounded. curity forces fire on the truc but the driver still detoted his bomb. the driver of anoth truck was killed befe he was able to set off a second vice. kurdish lawmers demanded for the government to step up curity. in afghanistan, that britis commando raid that freed a british ew york times" reporteresterday has led to me seconduessing about the raid as well as whether thteam of journalis should have been in the area in the first pla. the operation o took place in kund province in nortrn afghanistan ere the urnalists wereabducted aabducte they looked into last week's deadly bombing of two fl trucks. while the "times" reporter stephen rrell was scued, an afghan journal servg as his inrpreter was killed. andrew thomas looks athe fallout. >> initiallyt emed heroic and necessary. butuestions are being asked out whether the raid to rescue a british jrnalist and his afghan colleagueas wise. and whether the journalists have been reckless inutting themselves in danger in th first place. this is what they had initially come to see, the te of a nato attack on a fuel tanker ich had been hijked by the taliban. overnight, stephen farrell h written an accnt of his ordeal in which dends the decisi to makehe trip. on "the new york times" website he admits that wen he and afghan jonalist first got near e site of the to sattack, sultan began talking to the policend gleaned it was not safe tgo off the main highway to the site. but theollowing day, they went anyway. checked with sultan and the driver to see if ey felt safe going there. andhey said it seemed all righ at the riverbank whe the destroyed fu tankers were, the journalists beg interviing locals. they were initially en to talk. but as te pasd, we grew nervous. i do not know hw long we were there but it was uncomfortably long. i am comfortable with th decision to go t the riverbank but i fear we spent too lon there. >> stephen frell a sultan were both taken by the taliban an moved around for four days before british forces unted their resc raid. during it, the afghan journalist, a british special forces soldier a unknown number of locals were killed. but with speculatn negotiationsere under way that may have led to a peaceful outce should the raid have been sanctioned. afan jourlists are angry by what they perceive aa botched job. colleagues gathed in kabul to mourn sultan's death. >> they resorted in military action before exhaustingother nonvlent means. so a btish journalist rescued but an afghan one ana soldier lost. here a signof how tim have chaed in russia. they are going to make a once-banned literary masteiece required reang for high school school. th book islexander zhenitsyn's gularch mraeg goe which chronicleshe horrs ofhe sovietrison camp system set under the dictator josef stalin. some commentatorsote that the move comes at a time when th popularity o russia'sommunist party is increasi and may be aimed at countering thattrend. inhe middle east, there is something they aren't gog to be teaching any time skoon. schools n bythe unite nations in theaza strip were considering includinthe holocaust apart of the currulum this year. but the idea was put on hold when some pastinian protested the idea. deni of the holocausts still commonn the palestinian territies where some aapparentlfear that acknowledgg the genocid would dinish their claims to an independent state. thechools in question are run byhe u.n.d works agency which also provides a for palestinian refugees thughout the middle east. we want toet more on this issue night from andr whitley. >> what we wanted to do is to deep an underanding of the origins of the declarationf hun rights. we have been teaing human righ in all our schools and of our own volition since 2002, three years before the unite nations introced its hocaust education resolution suggesting that all children should be taught the origins of e subject. so we've been doing is for sometime but we feltt was necessary apart om teaching thebasic principles of human rights and conflict resolution, peaceful co existence andso on, tha children should understand th contextnd understand where did the universal declaration come from and the holocaust i part of tt story. >> why has it been t on hold? >>amas authorities as you correctly repord have been protting aboutit and they denyhe holocaust existed on the scale that it did. they ao claim that it's a pretext ny palestinian rights or t provide a justificatio for israel's expansionism or israel's presence in the gion. we firmly rect that. weompletely disree withany holocausdenial statements that come from the local authoriti. but we're in a position in which has is the de cto ahority as everye knows in gaza and they've also been inclined to exercise the inflnce through the e of force if cessary. and we are a humatarian agency tryingo teach 200,0 childr with palestinian teachers who are ry vulnerable to a gat deal of presre. >> right. are you in a position -- shouldn't yo agency be standing up tohe hamas authories? in principle, we shoul be introducing the courses and progra aft united nations. and of course we should be able do that. bu i think you need to understand the contextf this and listeners hould, thate are trying tintroduce the basic principles of the universal declaration in a particularly difcult and highly politicized, highly charged political environment. and hamas is showing itself to be increasingly intolerant. so for the moment, things are on ho. >> and is the holocausttaught by other unitenations agencies roughout the region? >> no. we're the only one who actually run sools in the regn. we he 500,00 children in our school systems in jordan, syria, lebano west bank and za. it's not ju in the palestian territory that is irael occupiest the moment. but what we'redoing is introducing it as a compulsory part of the cric limb elsewhere toake sure there is a full unrstanding of where the universal dclarations come from >> andrew whitle thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. finallytonight, our signature segment, e final chapr of our origina series on wom in the muslim world. tonight we look at an acvity that most of us takeor granted, the desire to py soccer. as youngsters here, boyce an girls often py together on coed teams and later young women often play in their ow league, that is t the way it has been inturkey,on overwhelmingly muslim country where wom have had to break new grounto play the sporthey love. "worldcus" producer gizem yarbil who is turkish heelf, turned home and went to one town whe women's soccehas beco more than ju a game. >> this girl has been playing soccer sin she was a little girl. that was nrly 20 years ago. but growing up in turkey as a girl who was crazy about soccer was not easy. in much of rkey, playing soccer isomething girls just don't do. >> i was playing soccer wit guyson the streets, much older guys. i didn't even know that there s something likewomen's soccer but i wanted t play so much and i never lohst that ambition. >> part of the resistance to women playing soccer is religious. turkey is over 99% muslim and a lot of people object to the sight of women in shorts and t-shirts in publ. part of it cultural. some belve the sport is simply too phical for women to play. >> people say, oh, you py soccer? maybe we shou playyou. ey make fun of . to them, we're jut women. >> now she is hoping to tear down that prejudice. she is aising star a new women's ofessional soccer league formed i turkey just a year ago. for an18-game sean, she wi ke around $6,000 for doing what she loves best. at does your family think about you playing soer? >> they didn't like me playing with giese. so when i joined the women's team, they said at leas she'll stop dng that. and now they'rreallyhappy. th can't stop lling everyone abt what i'm doing. >> she plays for the team. theeason is winding down and this day is a big day r her. her main rival is a team from another city, th play today. if thewin, they will take over first place in the league. this t in aouthern city pling the women's team there. but inhe stands keeping aab on the score is the team's manar and founder. panta used to play for e men's professial team. en his career ended, h decided to form a women's team after bein encouraged by veral local women. it w not an easy task. the city is known as a hotbed of religious orthodoxy and the backla was immediate. >> this is a very nservative pla place. they ran headlinesasking, are you a pervt? therwas a lot of unfair criticism. unfortunately there'still pressure fm parents. there's pressurefrom society. should gir do is? shouldirls do that? and that's why women often cat get ahead. >> in order to find players, panta had to g door tooor convcing families to let their daughters join the tm. his pitch? soccer is notjust a game, but a ticket to a better life. this is a forwd for the team. >> my dad didn't nt me to play sohe manag promised my dad he'd get me into school. now i'm going to schl for sports manement. the maner has kept all his prises. now my dad eventarted coming tohe games. >> the team has found another way winover conservative turks, win games. in fact, the teamis so ood, several ofits players have been selected to representurkey in an inrnational competion. >> when y put plars on the naonal team andsend players to university, parents who ha doubts will change their minds. but i never took t criticism to heart. fome, the rerd is when former players tell me, thanks to you, i've become a teacher today. thankso you, i make money today. >> sometes thousands of fans come to gamesere. this crowd,n aw game for the am, is a lot smaller. this woman's daughte is a player for the opposg team. >> she's bee playing sin she was a kid but we didn'tike it. at one point, we codn't deal with it anymore. so her gymteacher suggested letting her join the team. girl's soccer wasn't that common but now that is starting to spread, we've decided to accepit. >> the opportunities for women to play may be improving. but pairing with the men i still far away. life as woman professiol soccer pyer in turkey is tough. money is a constant worry. the team made a grueling 12hour ovnight bus rideto the game cause they couldn't affd to fly. at the game, a bathom at a playound next to the field doubled as a locker room the team spends mosof its in the hotel. almost allhe players are single and allowing them to go out on their own would be considered imprer in some conservative cities. it's the sense of mission that often keeps the team going. >> i think woen can do anytng. and goddoesn't give this kind of talent to everye. as women, we ve this will powe and it will grow bigger d the girls of turkey will follow. as for this team, onhis day, it wasn'teant to be. they tied the game while the main rival won. that means they will remain in second place. nonetheless, each game is a victory,ccording to the team captain. >> when i was young, there were people i looked up t no young girls are looking up to us. they say, i want to be like them that's a good thg. it makes me hay. >> i gizem yarbil reporting for "worldfocus" from turk. >> if you missed of our origal reports this weekon women in the muslim word, y can find themll on o website at worldcus.org. and thais our program for this thursday evening. i'm daljit dhaliwain new york. thanyou for joining us. we hope toee you back here at the same time tomorrow night til then, have a great the same time tomorrow night til then, have a great evening. -- captions by vitac -- www.tac.com "worldfocus" is made possible in part by the following funders -- major support has also been provided by the pete g. peterson foundation,edicated promoting fiscal responbility and addressing key economic challges facing amera's future.