In Romania, Healthcare Sickens

Romania’s healthcare system is in shambles. Critics say a combination of mismanagement, corruption and now the economic crisis makes it harder and harder for people to get good care.

Global Political Cartoons: July 18-24, 2010

President Obama is about as popular as BP; Fidel Castro lets some of the caged go free; and Apple’s Steve Jobs tries to listen to his critics using an iPhone 4.

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Global Political Cartoons: August 22-28, 2009

Cartoonists around the world mark the passing of another Kennedy and what it may mean for his favorite issue: reforming healthcare. The CIA comes in for some dark caricatures after this week’s report detailing aggressive forms of interrogation. So does Libya for its warm reception of one of its own: the terminally sick (and to many sickening) convicted Lockerbie bomber.

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The global quest for better healthcare

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Washington Post Journalist T.R. Reid has a new book out on a topic that was very close to Ted Kennedy’s heart: healthcare reform. The book is called “The Healing of America – A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care”. It looks to other countries to see what lessons can be applied to the healthcare system here in the U.S. Anchor Katy Clark talked with Reid.

Foreign models for US health care

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Anchor Katy Clark speaks with journalist T.R. Reid about his new book, “The Healing of America — A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.” It explores health care systems in other countries and whether the United States could learn from them.