Govt Health Care In France: FAIL

Clearing The Air has:

How's that Obama-style socialized healthcare system working in France?

"Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are leading the race to socialism as fast as they can......hoping to enact sweeping change before the American people have an opportunity to understand the massive negative implications. This article about the socialized healthcare system in France provides an all but guaranteed preview of attractions to come:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124958049241511735.html
(CTA will link you through to the WSJ)

"...(France's socialized healthcare system) has been in the red since 1989. This year the annual shortfall is expected to reach €9.4 billion ($13.5 billion), and €15 billion in 2010, or roughly 10% of its budget.

France's woes provide grist to critics of Mr. Obama and the Democrats' vision of a new public health plan to compete with private health insurers. Republicans argue that tens of millions of Americans would leave their employer-provided coverage for the cheaper, public option, bankrupting the federal government...."

As proof of that claim, my employer has already promised that all employees' private health insurance coverage will be cancelled if Obamacare is enacted into law. It's simple economics the boss explained, healthcare insurance is 15% of the company's operating expense, they can eliminate that 15% expense telling all employees to get their "free health insurance" from the government. Even after paying the proposed government fine for employers who don't provide health insurance to their employees....our company expects to save tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Thus the great lie by Obama is exposed, "...government healthcare won't eliminate private insurance...." .......yeah right.

WSJ article continues:

"..Despite the structural differences between the U.S. and French systems, both face similar root problems: rising drug costs, aging populations and growing unemployment..."

It's no secret to regular CTA readers of our disdain for one of the largest drug companies on the planet, Johnson & Johnson Company and their partner the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) (to understand our disdain click here)....so if I might offer a suggestion to Obama, Pelosi & Reid, in order to cut those drug costs you should consider the 1974 Department of Justice action which forced break-up of communications giant AT&T.....and initiate the break-up of Johnson & Johnson/RWJF.

As for socialized healthcare I offer the following concession, when prostate cancer victim Sen. Chris Dodd and brain tumor victim Sen. Ted Kennedy opt out of U.S. private healthcare in favor of being treated as a regular citizen in Canada, the UK., or France's government healthcare system then we can talk......until then you're all hypocrites simply looking for more government control."

In France, under Govt Health Care, the Doctors get paid, Far LESS than they do here.

"About 90% of general practitioners in France have an agreement with Assurance Maladie specifying that they can't charge more than €22 (about $32) for a consultation. For house calls they can add €3.50 to the bill.

By comparison, under Medicare, doctors are paid $91.97 for a first visit and $124.97 for a moderately complex consultation, according to the American College of Physicians."

What level of intelligence and actual talent are those low wages, held DOWN By Govt Mandate, going to attract, and do you want That to determine whether You live or die?

And as for the US DOJ breaking up not only RWJF/J&J, but the whole industry, It's That, or we get what France has: with babies born in a Firetruck due to cost cutting Hospital Closures, and France leading the US in infant mortality.

America's Indenture under our current system is 16% of GDP: considerably Higher than the National Socialist Plans of other nations, ..... AND, ..... America needed 8 Federal Agencies to investigate 1 Drug in Northern California alone.

"The investigation was conducted by the Civil Division of the U.S. DOJ, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Offices of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Defense."

Do you think 16% of GDP & 8 Federal Agencies might be in any way, a cause & effect thing?

Or how about this one?

Massive Medicaid Fraud: $2 - $4.5 Billion Alleged

And that's just from our Incurably Bio-$cienced, Mental Hygiene set poisoning Children with Drugs which Cure, Absolutely, Nothing.

Rather than Wasting another Trillion, in Bait, (as Govt Funded PTSD treatments are Killing our Servicemen & Servicewomen) we could fix the problem by hiring another However many it takes, at our Federal DOJ, (for one Hell of a lot less money) and assigning them to the Health Care/Pharma sector.

Those additional hires must be constrained, by Statute, to working Health/Pharma exclusively, or some Political Agenda above them, at some point, will drag them off to do something Else, ...... like Fingerprinting Grandma, and Psych Drug Crippled Children (Frontline Video), for receiving in home Health Care.

Now, go to CTA for the full WSJ on the French Connection.