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Guns, Butter and European Health Care

Europeans often moralize about the American reluctance to join the “civilized world” by implementing “universal” health care. A typical example of this condescending attitude can be found in the comment stream of this post at OVER!MY!MED!BODY!, where a Danish student offers the following: 
Today there’s not a single country in Europe that doesn’t have publicly sponsored […]

Posted 23 October 2007 † Catron § Canadian BS § Universal BS ‡ Comments (24)

French Health Care Universal? Désolé, non.

It would appear that the “universal” health care system of France is not so universal after all:
French social security released a statement last week announcing that inactive people who are below retirement ages will not be able to use the state health system.
The new rule applies only to Brit expatriates and other non-French residents, but […]

Posted 03 October 2007 † Catron § Universal BS ‡ Comments (0)

French Health Care: L’extrémité est près!

Having already exposed as inaccurate many of the claims being made for French health care, I was not surprised by this piece about a French researcher who offers a dire prognosis for the vaunted Gallic system.

It’s true we really have good access, but what if the system is not sustainable anymore? … It’s going to break. […]

Posted 07 September 2007 † Catron § ‡ Comments (2)

French Health Care for the US? Merci, non.

The advocates of socialized medicine, their claims for Canadian health care having been repeatedly exposed as wildly inaccurate, are now promoting a new single-payer paradise: France. Economist’s View links to a typical example of this in the Boston Globe:

The WHO rated [the French system] the best in the world in 2001 because of its universal […]

Posted 13 August 2007 † Catron § Universal BS ‡ Comments (22)