In this powerful four-part series, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith travels the length and breadth of the United States to critically examine the quality, affordability, and availability of healthcare. Case studies of ordinary Americans, supported by thorough medical and academic research, provide a timely checkup for a medical system that more and more say is in need of intensive care. 4-part series, 47-49 minutes each.

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The Series Includes : The Chronically Ill: Pain, Profit, and Managed Care | The Idealistic HMO: Can Good Care Survive the Market? | The Uninsured: Forty-Four Million Forgotten Americans | The Quality Gap: Medicine's Secret Killer

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