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
launched into this, as well but syrian activists say that it was a horrific massacre that happened in the town of hula. first it was shelled by moretar and once that stopped they entered the town and slaughtered men, women and children, entire families and the latest numbers say that at least 49 children under the age of 10 were killed on that day. it s an atrocity that is outraging not just the syrian people but the international community where we re seeing more gruesome scenes emerge from video taken in that town. horrific scenes showing children by the dozens in small rooms, their lifeless bodies caked in blood, horrifying gruesome, very disturbing scenes, really shocking the world as to how this could have happened. alina? mohammed, obviously the government not taking responsibility but are they saying anything about what happened? reporter: well, the government has flatly denied they had anything to do with this massacre. there was a press conference earlier today b
the showers and thundershowers have come in. they re getting very strong, and the heaviest storms are making their way on shore as we speak. so nobody really wants to be on the beach at this point anymore, at least not towards the jacksonville beach area. this is the area we re most concerned about. we re seeing augustine kind of sandwiched between there and jacksonville. as soon as this red stuff starts making its way onto shore, we can see wind gusts getting close to hurricane strength. 70 miles per hour, so that s dangerous. we already have reports in florida and south georgia of trees coming down and some power outages, and that s going to increase before the end of the night. the storm should make landfall this evening or overnight, and it will start to curb to the northeast. so the weakening is good, but the stalling not so great, and that s the concern, because we ll likely see some flooding associated with this. in fact, we could be talking anywhere between 3 and 6 in