NOVA · SEASON 8
The Malady of Health Care
Episode 6 · 1981-02-24
- Documentary
Episode overview
Health care is no longer two Aspirins and some chicken soup—it is a huge enterprise capable of amazing feats and costing billions of dollars. How can we afford to pay the bills? Is quality health care a right or a privilege? NOVA examines these questions in a comparison between the American and British systems of health care.
55 minutes
Season 8 episodes
1. Doctors of Nigeria1981-01-06
2. Message in the Rocks1981-01-20
3. The Dead Sea Lives1981-01-27
4. Anatomy of a Volcano1981-02-10
5. The Science of Murder1981-02-17
6. The Malady of Health Care1981-02-24
7. Beyond the Milky Way1981-03-03
8. The Asteroid and the Dinosaur1981-03-10
9. Animal Olympians1981-03-17
10. Resolution on Saturn1981-08-25
11. Computers, Spies and Private Lives1981-09-27
12. Why America Burns1981-10-04
13. The Great Violin Mystery1981-10-11
14. Cosmic Fire1981-10-18
15. Locusts: War Without End1981-10-25
16. Did Darwin Get It Wrong?1981-11-01
17. Artists in the Lab1981-11-15
18. Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas1981-11-22
19. City Spaces, Human Places1981-11-29
20. Twins1981-12-06
