Originally Posted by FloggingSully  There was a report on NPR a few weeks back about the Japanese system which seemed pretty good. Japan is the world's leader in "healthy life expectancy" or something like that and have a system similar to the Hillary Clinton/Mitt Romney universal health insurance plan. |
From what I saw it didn't look the Japanese system was as good as say the German plan. I don't remember which required a national insurance card which would be a sticking point for many in the US.