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.

NOVA Season 8 Episodes...

• s08e01 - The Pinks and the Blues
• s08e02 - The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian
• s08e03 - The Sea Behind the Dunes
• s08e04 - Do We Really Need The Rockies?
• s08e05 - The Big IF
• s08e06 - Voyager: Jupiter & Beyond
• s08e07 - The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor
• s08e08 - The Water Crisis
• s08e09 - Moving Still
• s08e10 - A Touch of Sensitivity
• s08e11 - The Red Deer of Rhum
• s08e12 - It's About Time
• s08e13 - The Doctors of Nigeria
• s08e14 - Message In The Rocks
• s08e15 - The Dead Sea Lives
• s08e16 - Anatomy of a Volcano
• s08e17 - The Science of Murder
• s08e18 - The Malady of Health Care
• s08e19 - Beyond The Milky Way
• s08e20 - The Asteroid and the Dinosaur
• s08e21 - Animal Olympians
• s08e22 - Resolution on Saturn

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.