It’s hard to resist the pull of American healthcare. Despite its poor outcomes and high costs, we tend automatically to look to the United States for new ways of delivering care. Flawed though it is, US healthcare fascinates with its flashes of excellence. I doubt this will change soon, but we shouldn’t be blinded—there is much we can learn from elsewhere. The BMJ’s occasional series “Looking to Europe” has so far covered France (BMJ 2008;336:254), Germany (BMJ 2008;337:a1997), Spain (BMJ 2009;338:b1170), the Netherlands (BMJ 2009;339:b3397), and Sweden (BMJ 2009;339:b4566), and a forthcoming article will look at Turkey’s successful healthcare reforms. Now it’s …