With health care reform at the top of the domestic agenda, this volume assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans by discussing how six other countries have organized health care finance and delivery to achieve universal access to comparable quality care at much lower costs. The six countries examinedAustralia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Japanreveal both the variety and fundamental similarities of medical care systems in the rest of the industrialized world.

Joseph White uses foreign experience to indicate the proper direction for...