what s more, we don t really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, and in a time magazine essay, we re going to take you around the world to study health care systems in other countries. to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan, and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they re doing wrong. we ll also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america, in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in the nation. but first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care, across the atlantic, in great britain. is the nation s health service an evil death panel, as some say? let s take a look. during america s debate over
health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what s more, we don t really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, and in a time magazine essay, we re going to take you around the world to study health care systems in other countries. to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan, and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they re doing wrong. we ll also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america, in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in the nation. but first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care, across the atlantic, in grea
no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what s more, we don t really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it s more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour, and in a time magazine essay, we re going to take you around the world to study health care systems in is other countries, to find out what lessons we can learn from others. we ll visit great britain, taiwan, and switzerland to find out what those nations are doing right and what they re doing wrong. we ll also show you some really interesting innovation going on back here in america, in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in the nation. but first, let s talk about the one thing americans are certain is bad. government-run health care, across the atlantic, in great britain. is the nation s health
urging people to quit smoking. it s the first time that the cdc has ran a paid anti-tobacco effort. they say they need to spend the money to go up against the multimillion dollar campaigns that get people to smoke. here s one of the ads. we warn you, it is quite graphic. i m mary and i want to give you some information how i get ready in the morning. former illinois governor, rod blagojevich, has one more hour before he hags to report to federal prison in chicago. he s serving a 14-year sentence for corruption including trying to sell the senate seat once held by president obama. here he is shaking people s hands at the airport in chicago. last hour i spoke to a former official about what to expect when he goes to prison. when you go to prison, you re not rod blagojevich anymore. when i went, i wasn t jim laski. rod blagojevich will get this in the next few hours. he will get strip searched and they will send his clothes back home and he will get his uniform. we re lo
protesters. at least 46 people were killed. you re about to see ads urging people to quit smoking. it s the first time that the cdc has ran a paid anti-tobacco effort. they say they need to spend the money to go up against the multimillion dollar campaigns that get people to smoke. here s one of the ads. we warn you, it is quite graphic. i m mary and i want to give you some information how i get ready in the morning. former illinois governor, rod blagojevich, has one more hour before he hags to report to federal prison in chicago. he s serving a 14-year sentence for corruption including trying to sell the senate seat once held by president obama. here he is shaking people s hands at the airport in chicago. last hour i spoke to a former official about what to expect when he goes to prison. when you go to prison, you re not rod blagojevich anymore. when i went, i wasn t jim laski. rod blagojevich will get this in the next few hours. he will get strip searched and they w