Didn't expect so many downvotes on that post. It seems many people here ( most of them living in the US i presume) don't want to hear about the downsides of a s

Didn't expect so many downvotes on that post. It seems many people here ( most of them living in the US i presume) don't want to hear about the downsides of a system i'm currently living in. I suppose this is a too sensitive subject to have a pros/cons type of discussion. French NHS works because everybody accepts to lower the rates of everything. We ( the french) live in a pseudo state-regulated health economy. When you're doing this, you're reducing the total amount of money that's flowing into that economy, which logically impacts the financing capabilities for R&D. Other people have said the same thing : http://www.nber.org/digest/may05/w11114.html http://www.nber.org/digest/may05/w11114.html