First, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), France has the best health system in the world. It was widely reported that the WHO than the French system, the number 1, while the Canadian system is number 30 and has number 37.
It should be noted that the WHO ranking actually contain several known classification and the number of most-cited rankings on the measurement of the WHO classification based OP. OP is to measure "overall performance" set to a country's performance depends on how he happened to reflect theoretically. When reporting the classification of 1 for France, 30 for Canada and 37 in the U.S. it is the classification of OP.
Why are the French system so well in the classification of the WHO? The French system differs in 4 areas:
It provides universal coverage
He adapted the service providers
Patients have free choice
Health and longevity of the population
Second, we should examine more precisely the French system because it is more similar to the American system, that the Canadian and British counterparts. Many Americans assume that the French system as the system in the UK. Nothing could be further from the truth, or more insulting to the French.
Just as the United States, the French system relies on two private insurance companies and government insurance. Also, as in America, people generally get their insurance through their employer. What is different is that everyone has health insurance in France. Each resident in France has access to health care under the law of universal coverage called universal health insurance.
In the French system, where healthcare is a branch of social insurance or social security. The system is primarily financed by a tax on the wages of the workers. An employee in France pays about 20% of their salary to fund the social security system. These taxes represent about 60% of the cost of health insurance.
The remaining funds come from self-employed, more than workers, and the indirect taxes paid on alcohol and tobacco. Finally, additional taxes are levied on other income, the direct and indirect.
The French share the same distaste for restrictions on the free choice of doctors, as do the Americans. The French system is based on autonomous private practitioners rather than a British-style national health service based. The French are very negative attitude of the British system, which they called "socialized medicine". Almost all physicians in France in the expression of the nation's public health, to participate in Social Security.
