Health Care Reform Taking Root In Divided Nation

France.



A Freedom Fries eater like you is going to use France?!



OK, let's take a look....



Based on your citation, France has a mix of no waits service, no one dying because of insurance, or any of the other problems you claim. As other articles have said, the French health care system has the highest satisfacti­on ratings.



The article points to a 10.5% of 2006 GDP expenditur­e on health care - $237 billion. The deficit is $14.5 billion. But is it an accrued deficit that's been paid for in other ways already? Or worse, is it the article year's (2007) total deficit?



Assuming it's the worse case, an increase of spending per GDP to 11.15% would bring a surplus. And it sounds like there are plenty of places where they can improve efficienci­es before having to resort to that sharp an increase in taxes, too.



If France spent at the same level as the US does, the GDP percentage would be 17.8% and the insurance fund there would run a surplus of $150 billion (over their current spending of $252 billion). Can you imagine how spectacula­r the "best" health care in the world would be if they spent 160% of what they spend today?!



In other words, you tried to claim France's health care system is on the verge of failure. Clearly you are wrong. And clearly, compared to US spending rates, France is tremendous­ly more efficient.



Try again.
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