On Sep 29, 2:56*am, Earl Evleth wrote:
On 29/09/12 1:23, in article
, "Raymond"

wrote:
France: 'Best' Health Care?

The French health care system has been dubbed "the best in the world."
David Turecamo finds out why the French can afford to get sick.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4546219n

I think I am the only person on this group to have French health care.
Most of the American criticism of other health care systems is not from
long personal experience and sometimes influenced by the negative coverage
by American conservatives.

I am mortally ill but my death has been delayed by being in a special
treatment program. My French insurance covers 100% of the costs
of my medical care, essentially no copays. *My recent installation of
a pace maker was 100% covered. My oxygen bills run around $700/month,
also completely covered. *This is also true with my drug costs.

When I retired we talked over our possible return to the USA for
my retirement. *One of the reasons for remaining in France is because
the US health care system looked ify to us, too many copay, limitations
in which the coverage actually declines if one has a long lasting
costly medical problem.

Lung translants are a common treatment in the US for Evleth's
unfortunate disease of pulmonary fibrosis.

from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/heal...opics/lungtxp/

"... About 1,800 lung transplants were done in the United States in
2010. ..."

(one of the highest per population (m) in the world)

I have read that France is at the bottom of the barrel ( only 7 lung
transplants performed in France for the most recent year I could
find).

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/he...ansplants-lung

With Evleth political ideology even supercedes the instinct for
survival.