Problems with the French health care system? Someone tell Michael Moore!
“It’s true we really have good access, but what if the system is not sustainable anymore?” says Teil. “It’s going to break. It’s going to blow. And then no more accessibility for anybody.”Tiel says the cost of France’s socialized health care is growing faster than its economy. Workers pay about fifty percent of their paycheck each month into healthcare, retirement and unemployment and more companies are outsourcing jobs to avoid those costs. Quality of care also suffers in France, says Teil, because hospitals and doctors resist government requirements to report their success and failures.
(via Catron)
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Médecine à deux vitesses = two-tiered medicine.
Google the term, the French have their own problems with their own health care.
To me, a few things are apparent. The U.S. healthcare system has many problems but having it run by the government will not make it better. It will make it worse because the government always seems to mismanage things, especially soemthing on this massive of scale. I also don’t want half of my paycheck going to social services. And lastly, I am all for people systems that hold people accountable for poor health care and reward those for good health care. it is only by having transparency that people will know where to get the best health care.
Dominic A. Carone, Ph.D.
Founder and Webmaster of MedFriendly.com and The MedFriendly blog.
The irony of all this criticism of every other system is that Kevin and Catron constantly criticize their own system, yet offer nothing of substance with regard to repairing either.
What was it Roosevelt said about the critic?
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