Watch the highlights of the ministers' roundtable from The Commonwealth Fund's 2008 International Symposium, "Toward a High Performance Health Care System: Best Practices for Achieving Access to Care and Value for Money." Participants included Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; The Rt. Honorable Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health, England; The Honorable Ab Klink, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands; The Honorable Thomas Zeltner, Secretary of State for Health, Switzerland; Franz Knieps, Director-General of Health Care, the Federal Republic of Germany; Stephen McKernan, Director-General of Health, Ministry of Health, New Zealand; Laurent Degos, Chair, Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS)/French National Authority for Health; Karen Dodds, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Canada; and David Learmonth, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing, Australia.
