How do other capitalist democracies balance health care and profits? What's the American government's role in the country's obesity epidemic? Find out in an informative and entertaining double feature of health care programs Tuesday, April 15, starting at 9 p.m. Frontline: Sick Around the World Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? "Frontline" correspondent T.R. Reid examines the health-care systems of other advanced capitalist democracies ? the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan ? to see what tried and tested ideas might help us reform our broken health-care system. Tuesday, April 15, 9 p.m. Independent Lens: King Corn Two recent college graduates travel to their ancestral home in rural Iowa, plant a single acre of America's most powerful crop, corn, and attempt to follow its fate as food. In their year-long adventure they see the realities of modern farming firsthand, explore a fast-food nation built on corn syrup sodas and corn-fed meat, and come to question government subsidies, intensive agriculture and the cheap food we eat. Tuesday, April 15, 10 p.m.
