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U.K. Health Secretary: British, American Systems Can Learn From Each Other

MP Andy Burnham, the U.K.'s health secretary, talks to the Online NewsHour about the country's health care system. Britain's National Health Service employs some 1.3 million health care workers, and provides health care to all British residents. Full Article at Newshour With Jim Lehrer

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  1. An ambulance arrives at Lewisham hospital in south London November 29, 2009. Twelve National Health Service hospital trusts in England are significantly underperforming on basic safety, according to a report published by a health information body on Sunday.
  2. YORK, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 02:  A mock casualty is given medical assistance inside a replica helicopter by volunteers from 256 (City of London) Field Hospital during an exercise at the Army Medical Services Training Centre, on October 2, 2009 in York, United Kingdom.
  3. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 28:  Mugs promoting the National Health Service are stacked on a Labour party stall at the Labour Party Conference on September 28, 2009 in Brighton, England.
  4. LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 19:  Supports for the NHS hold pacards in front of the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square on August 19, 2009 in London, England. The photo-call is intended as a message of support to US citizens, where President Barack Obama is trying to introduce health reform.
  5. LONDON - JULY 24: Prime Minister Gordon Brown looks on during a visit to a National Health Service (NHS) centre on July 24, 2009 in central London, England. Brown's Labour Party suffered another by-election defeat today in the first poll triggered by a scandal over lawmakers' expenses.
  6. A delegate watches a speech by Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham, during the annual Labour party conference in Brighton, southern England, on September 30, 2009.
  7. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 30:  Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham speaks at the Labour Party Conference on September 30, 2009 in Brighton, England.
  8. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 27:  Ed Balls MP (r), the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, and Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, play in the Journalists vs Labour Party football match on September 27, 2009 in Brighton, England.
  9. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 01:  Carol Ann Duffy talks to the media after being announced as the new Poet Laureate by culture secretary Andy Burnham on May 1, 2009 in Manchester, England. Duffy is the first female poet to be given the post and takes over from Andrew Motion.

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