How do we provide world-class health care for... the world?

This video, from the TED conference, is a nice case study of a successful world-class health care clinic in Jamaica. It's an inspirational story that focuses on a solution.

This health clinic has managed to provide world-class health care to anyone who wants it, regardless of their ability to pay, at about 10% of the cost of what the health care would have cost in the United States. All their physicians are board-certified in the U.S., Canada, or Britain. They have provided $1 million in indigent care last year (averaging about $85/month), and saved the government of Jamaica about $5 million. They have provided Jamaica with over 100 skilled jobs.

If you don't have patience for the video, here's a summary (though my summary doesn't quite do the talk justice, mind you):

• Use modular, quality technology -- multi-functional equipment that is easy to fix and durable
• Regenerative training process -- they have a system for training people that can be reproduced and lasts long after any individual leaves the organization
• Produce their own pharmaceuticals (using generators from pharmaceutical company). A unit dose that would cost $250 from a pharmaceutical costs $2 to produce themselves.
• Telemedicine Internet platform that gives Nigerian doctors access to doctors worldwide for questions, etc.
• Electronic records (80% of U.S. offices do not have electronic records) 
• Prevention program addressing lifestyle choices, especially among children 

The U.S. spends, by far, more on health care than any other nation. Yet, our health outcomes are among the worst of the developed nations. Our current system is full of waste and... opportunities for improvement.