Recently lauded by jouropundits as a segment akin to This American Life’s "Giant Pool of Money" episode.
‘Journalist and author T.R. Reid set out on a global tour of hospitals and doctors’ offices, all in the hopes of understanding how other industrialized nations provide affordable, effective universal health care. The result: his book "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care"’
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112172939