AdamT
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Just a couple of articles for you to read Adam.
France Fights Universal Care's High Cost - WSJ.com
Health care in France: facing hard choices
Frances system is going broke. And they are desperately trying to find ways like copays, an American Insurance thing BTW, to ease their problems in budgetary shortfalls. Yet proponents like you want to run to these failing systems, even as they are trying to run away from them.
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Just about every country is experiencing health care inflation, but France's per capita cost is still far below ours. In France, total health care spending is 10.8% of GDP. That's almost seven full percentage points lower than ours. Can you imagine how much ass we would be kicking if we could free up 7% of GDP per year? If a developed country has GDP growth of 4% that's considered pretty damned good.
In fact, France's per capita health care spending is just about HALF of ours. That equates to about $3,500 per person. Imagine how our economy would skyrocket if everyone had an extra $3,500 to spend ... every year!
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