France has the best health system in the world

While the U.S. is fighting against a system of universal health care, many considered the Canadian health care system as a model. Few have looked to France. This is a mistake for two reasons.

First, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), France has the best health system in the world. It 'been widely reported that the WHO found the French system, to be number 1, while the Canadian system is the number 30 and the number of U.S.37.

It should be noted that the WHO ranking actually contain multiple placements and the numbers in order, the ranking is based on the extent to which the WHO defines the list OP. OP is to measure "overall performance" with the performance of a country to reflect on how well they could theoretically have to do. In return the ranking of 1 for France, 30 for Canada and 37 for the United States, is the ranking OP is used.

Because theFrench system to do the WHO ranking of regions? The French system is characterized by 4:

It provides universal coverage
She said Health Services
Patients have free choice
The health and longevity of the population

Second, we should look more closely, the French system because it has more in common with the U.S. system than with the Canadian and British systems. Many Americans assume that the French system as the system in the United Kingdom.Nothing could be further from the truth, or more offensive to the French.

Just as the United States, the system relies on two private insurance and insurance of the French government. Moreover, as in America, people generally get their insurance through their employer. What is different is that everyone in France is health insurance. Every resident in France for medical treatment under the law of universal coverage access the call Couverture maladieUniversal.

According to the French system, health insurance, a field of social security and Social Security is. The system is mainly financed through taxation of employees' earnings. An employee in France pays about 20% of their salary to fund Social Security. These represent about 60% of the cost of health insurance.

The rest of the funding comes from self-employed workers pay more for workers, and indirectTaxes on alcohol and tobacco. Finally, the additional taxes levied against other income, directly or indirectly.

The French share the same distaste for restrictions on patient choice as an American. The French system is based on autonomous private practitioners rather than a British-style National Health Service. The French are very negative attitude of the British system as "socialized medicine". Almost all physicians in France in the Nation's Public HealthInsurance, Sécurité Sociale.

Maybe it's time for us to take a closer look at French ideas about healthcare reform.