2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, Millennials also cost us the election. [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)and to a lesser extent France, which rates highly internationally - they depend on private innovation and research
"The French health system combines universal coverage with a publicprivate mix of hospital and ambulatory care and a higher volume of service provision than in the United States. Although the system is far from perfect, its indicators of health status and consumer satisfaction are high; its expenditures, as a share of gross domestic product, are far lower than in the United States; and patients have an extraordinary degree of choice among providers.
Lessons for the United States include the importance of governments role in providing a statutory framework for universal health insurance; recognition that piecemeal reform can broaden a partial program (like Medicare) to cover, eventually, the entire population; and understanding that universal coverage can be achieved without excluding private insurers from the supplementary insurance market."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447687/