MONEY AND MEDICINE tackles the medical, ethical and financial challenges of containing runaway health care spending. This documentary explores promising ways to reduce health care expenditures while improving the overall quality of medical care. It captures the painful end-of-life treatment choices made by patients and their families, ranging from very aggressive interventions in the ICU to palliative care at home. MONEY AND MEDICINE...7pm
What does it take to save a student? Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States quit high school without diplomas -- an epidemic so out of control that nobody knows the exact number. What is clear is that massive dropout rates cripple individual career prospects and cloud the country's future. FRONTLINE spent a semester immersed in Houston's Sharpstown school district to produce a portrait of four students in crisis and the teachers, counselors and principal waging a daily, personal struggle to get them to graduation. DROPOUT NATION...9pm
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