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Um, John, the author of the article is Valentin Petkantchin, Director of Research of the Institut économique Molinari. I think he probably does not consider his research propaganda...but I could be wrong. Why do you assume that because he first published his article in the AJC that it is somehow not worthy of notice? I do believe he has a more informed position on the health care situation in France than both of us, but maybe I'm wrong about that, too (see below).
By the way, he is not talking about a shortage of physicians. He is talking about increased health care costs resulting in increasingly shoddy health care for French citizens.
Look. People in America are clamoring for universal care. Is anyone noticing that the countries that have national care are increasingly using private health care services? It should be a concern to everyone that the countries with the system we want to have are adopting the system that we currently have.
That should spur everyone to investigate and to determine what is going on behind the scenes and on the balance sheets. If you are so concerned about lives being saved, then you should want to ensure that the system we adopt will serve the most people for the least amount of resources and be able to be sustained at an acceptable level in our current economic system.
Take off the pleated skirts, put down the pom-poms and actually look at what is really happening with the national health care systems. That is the reason I post those articles. Any system adopted will affect all of us; those of you making remunerations to other countries will be affected. More of an increase in what we pay for food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare results in fewer dollars to send. Other countries depend on those dollars and many of you know that far better than I. So yes, what gets spent on the 'universal health care' system affects more than just Americans.
FYI: Valentin Petkantchin
Valentin Petkantchin holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Economic analysis of institutions) and a Master's Degree in Media communication and economics training from the University of Aix-Marseille III (France). Between 1996 and 2003 he was a fellow researcher at the Center of Economic Analysis and a lecturer in economics at the Applied Economics Faculty and at the Law Faculty in that same university. Valentin Petkantchin also wrote weekly columns between 1999 and 2002 for Libres.org (an electronic newspaper offering an economic perspective on public policy and current affairs in France). He is the author of numerous scientific publications and research working papers on various subjects and has worked for several years with the Institute for Humane Studies-Europe and the Institute for Economic Studies-France. Mr. Petkantchin was MEI's Research Director from January 2004 to May 2006. He works at the Institut économique Molinari ever since.
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Date: Monday, July 13, 2009 6:31 pm
Subject: Re: Ills of French health system a lesson on reining in costs
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> Vera, the Atlanta Journal Constitution article is just as
> propagandistic in that it really doesn't say anything; it just spouts
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> more rhetoric about what is wrong with universal health care without
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> offering a solution beyond the inadequate status quo. Further, it
> reads as if the author is describing the current system of managed
> care in the US, and that the current shortage of physicians in
> certain
> parts of the US will soon become evident in France. And don't
> insurance companies in this country currently cap costs? How can the
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> citizenry or the country be better off when over half the population
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> is without health care? Isn't a healthy population a productive one?
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> > Again, this is not "propagandizing." It is the epitome of naivete
> to
> > ignore existing problems with a system you want to emulate. You'd
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> > better find out what the real deal is from an economic standpoint
> or
> > the country and its citizens will be no better off than they are
> > now. Not only will you have wasted time, you will have wasted money.
> >
> > http://www.institutmolinari.org/editos/20090421.htm
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> > Ills of French health system a lesson on reining in costs
> > Valentin Petkantchin* – April 21, 2009
> > Article first published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on
> April
> > 12, 2009.
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> > "At the center of President Barack Obama’s budget is a $634 billion
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> > “reserve fund” to help policy-makers achieve comprehensive health
>
> > care reform. But money alone can’t fix a country’s health care
> > problems. Ask any Frenchman.
> >
> > The French health system is one of the world’s most expensive. And
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> > as the government desperately tries to rein in spending, patients
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> > are getting increasingly shoddy care....The lessons for America are
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> > clear: Attempting to achieve universal coverage through compulsory
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> > insurance will not control costs but will certainly undermine
> > quality of care.
> >
> > Admittedly, France still has superior health care compared with
> > neighbors such as Britain, where the state both owns and pays for
>
> > health care via taxes. But as France continues down this same path,
>
> > its population too will eventually suffer Britain’s infamous
> waiting
> > lists and rationing. America would do well to take heed."
> >
> > *Valentin Petkantchin is Director of Research of the Institut
> > économique Molinari.
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