Description: Problems with Canadian health care system: long lines, lagging in medical technology. Some perceived impediments ($$$) in converting US physicians to national health system.
Description: Not all legislators are fully familiar with contents of health care bill (lack of time to digest voluminous details) although they have strong enough opinions to vote on it. Reps. Tucker, Galvin, MacGovern, Connolly.
Description: Who will bear added cost of providing universal health care, as proposed in Dukakis bill? Philip Johnston, Pat McGovern, Mitchell Rabkin … series of talking heads.
Description: Universal health care bill is uncertain because of paradox of increasing access while containing costs. Philip Johnston says Mass. will be a laboratory state. Many generic hospital scenes.
Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis touts his health care plan to extend coverage to uninsured. Reax from lobbying groups & hospital administrators. Sen. Patricia McGovern.
Description: Review of Dukakis' legislation attempts and successes in 1987: state pensions, prison furloughs, health care for all. Corrections Commissioner Michael Fair, Alden Raine.