Health Care System in France

The U.S. Health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country but ranks 37 out of 191 countries according to its performance.” (WHO, 2000, p. 1) Progression in the United States has not kept up with the advances in other wealthy nations dealing with the population health. Disease and chronic disability report almost 50% of America health problem (JAMA, 2013).

The economics of healthcare is not at all simple. What you put in is certainly not necessarily indicative of what you get out, as shown by the striking discrepancy between what we pay and what we get out of our healthcare system. This is demonstrated further by comparing our system to those of France and Italy, who come in first and second, respectively, in WHO’s international ranking of healthcare systems (“World Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems”). Counter to what many Americans may believe, a number of European nations do not have completely socialized medicine.

The first characteristic of the US health care system is that there is no central governing agency which allows for little integration and coordination. While the government has a great influence on the health care system, the system is mostly controlled through private hands. The system is financed publically and privately creating a variety of payments and delivery unlike centrally controlled healthcare systems in other developed countries. The US system is more complex and less manageable than centrally controlled health care systems, which makes it more expensive. The second characteristic of the US health care system is that it is technology driven and focuses on acute care. With more usage of high technology,

It is said that 37% of Americans do not go to their regular doctor due to the high prices of the visits and prescriptions to be filled, unlike Europe with 4-6%. Or what about 23% of Americans don’t pay any hospital bills due to the high cost, compared to Europe’s 6%. Ever wonder why Americans spend so much, but get so little? The money that we spend towards our physicians to give us a look, goes towards useless and wasteful practices. With all the statistics, the list could go on and on. Let’s face it, America’s health

According to the Garber & Skinner (2008), the United States spends more on health care than other nations but continues to score below other nations in numerous areas of measurement. These scores in, consideration with amount spent, suggest that healthcare is the United States is inefficient. Additionally, the United States has a significantly large portion of under

The single most important impetus for healthcare reform throughout recent history has been rising costs (Sultz, 2006). In the book called The healing of America: a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care, Reid wrote that the nation’s health care system has become excessively expensive, ineffective, and unjust. Among the world’s developed nations, the US ranks near the bottom for healthcare access and quality. However, the US ranks at the top for health expenditure as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and average of $7,400 per person (Reid, 2010). Therefore, Americans are spending

Rising medical costs are a worldwide problem, but nowhere are they higher than in the U.S. Although Americans with good health insurance coverage may get the best medical treatment in the world, the health of the average American, as measured by life expectancy and infant mortality, is below the average of other major industrial countries. Inefficiency, fraud and the expense of malpractice suits are often blamed for high U.S. costs, but the major reason is overinvestment in technology and personnel.Health care costs are far higher in the United States than in any other advanced nation, whether measured in total dollars spent, as a percentage of the economy, or on a per capita basis. And health costs here have been rising significantly faster

United States take pride in many things: world’s largest economy, strong military power, internationally acclaimed institutions, great cultural diversity, endless entertainment from Hollywood to Major League Baseball, and more. Unfortunately, health care did not make it into the list. It is quite unsettling to accept that 2010 health data for industrialized countries placed United States in the last place in almost every criteria. U.S. health care spending had reached $7,538 per capita which was far more than any other country, doubling the OECD median of $2,995 (Squire, 2). In the analysis of five-year survival and mortality rate for various forms of cancer, the data showed that the outcomes of Americans did not perform any better than

In fact, the spending disparity between the U.S. and the other twelve countries is so vast that only the graph shown above can truly do it justice (commonwealth fund OECD Health Data 2016). The most shocking fact to consider is that despite such high spending, the U.S. still performs worse than these countries on health care. Where the quality of performance is determined by quality, access, efficiency, equity, and life expectancy the U.S. ranks dead last out of the twelve countries. With the exception of Switzerland, the second highest spending country, all of these countries have health care systems that are single-payer, universal, or both

to adopt a single payer health care system to replace our current health care system. One of the ways this article helps me prove this point is by showing that the American health care system is poor compared to the other developed nations. Lindeque excellently proves this point with evidence from experts, “The United States ranks 37th in the world in terms of quality in fairness in its health care system, according to the World Health Organization”. Lindeque also uses some other numbers to show that the United States spends way more on its healthcare than other developed nations. The evidence in this article shows that the United States spends way more money on less quality care. This will go a long way in helping me prove the American health care system is in need of serious reform. Lindeque’s analysis of the health care system of other countries also is very useful. In this portion of the article Lindeque writes that the British spend half as much on health care as the U.S while having better health care statistics and overall better health statistics like higher life expectancy and infant mortality rate. These facts show that the U.K system is far superior because they spend half as much as their American counterparts to get an overall better healthcare system. The single payer system of the U.K. is better and facts and observations from health experts coming from this article proves this assertion to be true. The information Lindeque put in this article will go a long way in proving my argument to be

Wenzl, 2014). I selected France because it has the best health care system in the world

We can say that among the 4 nations studied in this paper, United States has the most expensive health care system and the less satisfied.

When comparing the funding for a countries’ medical cost to another country, it is not an even, across the board comparison since different programs provide for different services. This paper will look at the National Health Insurance (NHI) of France and the Affordable Care Act coverage in the United States.

According to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), France is above the OECD average on a range of key indicators. This contributes to France’s life expectancy of 82.2, while life expectancy is 78.8 in the U.S.. One reason the U.S.’ life expectancy is lower is the overall health of populations as many Americans are not seeking medical care when sick due to high cost or lack or proper insurance coverage. Compared with U.S. citizens, the French consult their physicians more often, are admitted to the hospital more often, and purchase more prescription drugs, while Americans are leaving small health problems untreated that are becoming serious health conditions. The higher level of population health status achieved by the French healthcare system is exceptionally better than its

    The next chapter compares the quality of health care in different countries. The first two countries compared were the United States and France, and although the United States is more superior than other countries in many ways, France’s accessibility time and affordability are better than the U.S. When looking into the United States, we are doing well with treating chronic diseases and diseases like cancer better than Canada and many other countries; not to mention, many over the Americans who have a lower income are known to be more healthy than many Canadians. However, compared to countries like France, which is more socialized, we are lacking in some categories.