Reply To: Cap and Trade

[Brian H]

Going way back up to your comment “I guess you get what you pay for”, re health care: here’s another little kick in the consensus can:

France is rated best and most efficient for its health delivery system, plus (reasonably) long life expectancy, all paid for with only 10.5% of GDP, vs the US, rated 37th by the WHO, spending 14.5% unfairly and unevenly. Aside from “cooking the books” by heavily weighting “fairness” to mean evenness of distribution, it also turns out that the GDP% figure is fudged, by well over 100%. The Social Service agency, whose mandate is almost entirely delivery of health care there, has a budget which is 22% of GDP, and there’s another 2 or 3% in other departments. So France is paying about 1/4 of its entire economy for health care. Its doctors, btw, earn about 1/3 of what American ones do. That accounts for about 1/10 of the American cost of health care. So you could make all the doctors work for free, at gunpoint, and it wouldn’t begin to resolve the cost issue.

And apparently France’s health-socialism is delivering WAY less than what it is getting paid for.