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The president of Switzerland, Couchepin oversees the implementation of the 1994 law that requires all Swiss citizens to buy health insurance -- with the state paying for the poor. | 
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Hawkes is health editor for The Times of London and a longtime observer of Britain's National Health Service (NHS), a government-run service that covers everyone's health care and is paid for out of tax revenue. |
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Ikegami is widely regarded as the top health economist in Japan, which has some of the best health statistics in the world while spending less than most other developed nations. | 
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A health expert and politician, Lauterbach explains the German system of social insurance and discusses what the U.S. could learn from it. |
Uwe Reinhardt and Tsung-mei Cheng |
Husband-and-wife health policy experts based at Princeton University, Reinhardt and Cheng discuss the problems with American health care and compare it to systems in other countries, including Cheng's native Taiwan. |
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