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Four in five Americans say the US health-care system needs “fundamental” change.  Can the US learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care 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 the health-care systems of other advanced capitalist democracies — UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan — to see what tried and tested ideas might help us reform our broken health-care system.