June issue: Healthcare under pressure

How can we ease the worldwide pressure on public healthcare systems? Reinventing health insurance and monitoring patients in their homes are two of the solutions suggested by this month's contributors.

• Living longer, staying younger
  We may not all be able to match the Japanese centenarian who skis down mountains - indeed, millions of us will need increasing healthcare. Who will foot the bill?
• Re-inventing health insurance
  Health services everywhere face the challenge of financing new programs with static or declining funding. Health insurance may need to re-invent itself to provide an answer.
• Medical savings accounts - a counterweight to lopsided health care?
  At worst, private health care costs too much while public health care delivers too little. Medical savings accounts might blunt the disadvantages of both systems.
• Phone in for a diagnosis
  As pressure mounts on doctors' surgeries and hospitals, one radical solution is to develop medical call centers to monitor some patients by "remote control".
• Bombs, bullets and brain surgery
  From bomb victims in Baghdad and Bali to medical emergencies thousands of miles from home, this travel insurer provides the help that's essential.