October 13, 2000
A Compelling but Simplified Case for Health-Care Reform
Hedrick Smith, a former New York Times reporter and author, has created a half-dozen PBS specials on politics, economics, foreign affairs, crime, and urban society. In Critical Condition, he tackles yet another weighty subject -- the nation's health-care system. As the program's title suggests, his diagnosis is grim; but the case merits a second opinion -- perhaps too grim.
In Critical Condition's four segments, Smith explores the right problems: disparities in quality of care,
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