Lessons on health reform from across the waves.

摘要

The United States is among the world's leading exporters in the brisk trade of ideas for financing and delivering health care. But in this issue of Health Affairs, insights from abroad flow our way, as several of our authors reflect on health reforms in other industrialized nations.Spain is in the spotlight for having won the World Cup, but its health system scores high as well, write Jeffrey Borkan and colleagues. The nation emerged from the Franco dictatorship in 1975 socially and economically behind much of the rest of Europe. But the demise of the old order cleared the deck for sweeping changes in health care, along with much else.