Introduction to international health care systems: themes and variations on themes / Edward T. Wimberley and Khi V. Thai -- Reforms in the Hungarian health care system / Tamás Evetovits -- Russia's health care system: caring in a turbulent environment / Elena A. Bourhanskaia, Aren Kubataev, and Mary A. Paterson -- The Canadian health care system / Carole M. Pohl -- Like plugging the holes in a colander: health policy and provision in the United States circa the Millennium / Edward T. Wimberley and Arthur J. Rubens -- The health services system in Mexico / World Health Organization -- France's health care system / Peter L. Cruise -- Universal coverage and cost control: the United Kingdom National Health Service / Karen Bloor and Alan Maynard -- Sweden's health care system / Paul Gunnar Kaati -- The German health care system / Balu Swami -- Italy's health care system / Michelle A. Angeletti -- The political economy of health care in Greece / Dimitris Niakas -- Health care system in Turkey / Fahreddin Tatar and Tevfik Dinc̦er -- The Japanese health care system: citizen complaints and citizen possibilities / Rieko Yajima and Kazue Takayanagi -- The health care system in Australia / Helen M. Lapsley -- A health care system in radical transition: the experience of New Zealand / Laurence Malcolm -- Health care financing: a comparative analysis / Khi V. Thai, Sharon M. McManus, and Edward T. Wimberley.