Ten Reasons Why American Health Care Is so Bad

Is there a link or source for the French system being bankrupt?

I looked but couldn't find it.

I did find these articles:

http://healthcare-economist.com/2008...-world-france/

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...8/b4042070.htm

I've spent some time googling and although I uncovered a lot about the frustrations of providers bailing out of the state program because reimbursement is low, I could not find the article about financial desperation.

I read it, on Yahoo. I know this because we discussed it in our policy class, and others, including the professor, had also seen the article.

Normally I am happy to provide a cite if asked, but I've already devoted time I didn't have to the task, so you can just ignore my earlier post if proof is needed.

But you cannot deny the question, where is the money coming from? Health care is a huge part of France's budget every year and granted they aren't spending much on defense, but still.....

I'm not doubting you.
I was surprised not to find it.
Thought it may be in a source not available on line.

Or maybe Yahoo used the wrong word due to poor translation.

But you cannot deny the question, where is the money coming from? Health care is a huge part of France's budget every year and granted they aren't spending much on defense, but still.....

"But you cannot deny the question, where is the money coming from? Health care is a huge part of France's budget every year and granted they aren't spending much on defense, but still.....

There are two ways to make a real apples to apples comparison of health care costs among countries: dollars per capita or percent of GDP. By both measures, the US already spends more - a lot more - than all of the countries that cover all their citizens. In fact, we even spend more in taxes than any of them do. We are paying for universal healthcare now, we just aren't getting it.
The difference is the massive amounts lost to: insurance company bureaucracy, profit and executive compensation. The amounts wasted by doctors and hospitals on complying with insurance company regs, filling out forms, fighting for reimbursement, etc. The expense of caring for people with expensive problems because they could not get care for a cheaper problem - doing dialysis on people whose kidneys failed because they could not get decent treatment for their diabetes etc, etc, etc.