FRONTLINE examines first-hand how other advanced capitalist democracies deliver healthcare and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.

Four in five Americans say the U.S. healthcare system needs "fundamental" change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a healthcare system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid examines first-hand how other advanced capitalist democracies - United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland - deliver healthcare and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.