hey guys uh welcome back to foreign reacts today we're going to be checking out a video titled
how french healthcare compares to the u.s system and we already know the usa uh doesn't have
the best health care system implemented for its uh citizens right but uh nonetheless um
i don't know what france has for its people so hence the reason why we gotta watch this
video today to find out so i do hope you guys are having a good day and i'd really
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you guys health care is becoming a big issue in the 2020 elections the democrats are pushing for
a government-funded model while president trump is campaigning on gutting obamacare we repealed the
core of the disastrous obamacare the individual mandate is now gone medicare for all has become
a mantra among leftist-centered democrats in the presidential race healthcare is a human right
not a privilege i strongly believe that we need to have medicare for all i am a strong supporter
of medicare for all the candidates do have different interpretations of what medicare
for all actually looks like in america those differences aside it's essentially a universal
single-payer system closely modeled after canada's healthcare system but there's
another national healthcare system that gets a lot of attention france back in 2000 the world
health organization ranked it as the best national healthcare system in the world a lot has happened
since then but france's healthcare system remains a model for universal coverage here's
why despite spending less on coverage france has comparable or even better health care
outcomes than the united states the united states has a higher rate of infant mortality
in france nearly four children die out of every 1 000 live births in the u.s that number is closer
to six france also has a higher average life expectancy than the united states by four years
and the rate of rehospitalization in france is 5.3 percent lower than that of the united states
lower rates of rehospitalization in france are likely due to better access to primary care
as well as longer average stays in the hospital since france gives every
citizen coverage from birth the system allows them to get more preventative
treatments throughout their lifetimes which save on costs and improve outcomes
after world war ii french politicians were concerned the country's private health care
system would not be able to handle coverage demands so the country established a model
of national health insurance meant to protect the population against inc
so y'all tell me that y'all was this tough back then with world war ii y'all would still handle it
oh what i'm sorry but come on man like what you're trying to tell me that france was this powerful
ain't no way ain't no way ain't no way increasing health care costs the french call their system
social security but it is not an example of socialized medicine it's not government run
just government finance it's very close to being a single-payer health care system i'm
pierre i'm a professor of economics at the paris school of economics every individual who lives
in france whether he or she is a foreigner or a french citizen is covered by basic social security
everyone has access to care doesn't mean free access to care but access to care with reasonable
co-pays this mandatory coverage doesn't come at the expense of freedom of choice in medical
care the system is set up to ensure that doctors are not restricted when making medical decisions
the system covers every doctor every lab every hospital every clinic they're all covered
and they all have to take the patients that's tr reed author of the book the healing of america
he traveled the world exploring different healthcare systems and how well they worked
america is the only place where we have what the insurance companies call neuron networks
where they dictate which doctors you can go to no other country does that in every other country
the patient picks the doctor and the system pays that's also true for our medicare system medicare
covers all doctors so here's what happens in the united states let's say let's say somebody
you know a clerk in in 7-eleven or he'll tell me it has no insurance or very little insurance
and she feels a vague pain on the right side of her abdomen it would cost her 120 bucks to go to
the doctor she's not going to do that she's going to work through it and three months later she's
in the emergency room the first appendix costs 60 000 and we'll treat her we'll treat her but
if she could have gone to the doctor when she felt that first pain she could the doc could have
treated the infection it would have cost a hundred bucks instead of thirty thousand the way we do it
by definition makes things much more expensive it was covering everybody so that people get the
care they need when it's still early and cheap is a much smarter and a much less expensive way
to provide health care france's social security reimburses around 70 to 80 percent of medical
costs leaving the remaining amount for patients to pay out of pocket france also has voluntary
supplemental health insurance provided by private insurance companies but in france they want you to
know that you're getting something of value from the health care system so they make you pay and
then everybody in france gets about 80 percent of it back from the insurance company france's social
security also legally requires price transparency and because the government-funded system covers
the entire population it has more bargaining power to keep the prices low social security also has no
waiting list for specialized hospital treatments there's also no physician gatekeeping french
patients do not need their general practitioner to sign off so they can see a specialist
so how does france's system stack up against america's the french healthcare system is
considered one of the most expensive in the world and yet it's still half the cost of america's
in 2017 u.s spending added up to 10 200 per capita in france it was only 4 900
administrative costs are also much lower in france than in the united states
in france they're limited to 5.5 of the bill whatever the bill is the administrative fee
can't be more than five and a half percent in america our private insurance companies
have administrative costs of 20 on every bill and that's so important to our insurance industry that
their lobbyists wrote that into obamacare that they're allowed to add 20 administrative costs one
of the ways the french keep their administrative costs lower is with the carte vital a health
insurance card carried by every french citizen when a person visits a doctor in france they
present their cart vitals so the doctor can look them up in the digital system the card gives the
doctor all the information they need to charge for the visit french citizens can also opt to
have all their medical records stored on a card for doctors to access and because the system is
available all over the country it saves time and money another way france manages rising health
care costs is by having the government regulate them unlike the united states where legislatures
are deadlocked on what to do about health care the french parliament votes to set new health care
budgets and guidelines every year the parliament votes every year on call an objective but it is
i don't even know what to say
man it's kind of pointless to even compare american health care system
i'm over here in wonderland like damn this real life right here huh
like i literally know people who ran themselves up a couple bills with american health care
system like i've never been in the situation unfortunately right but i know a couple people who
ran themselves up a couple hundred bro like just because of health care situations in america it's
tough man and i'm not talking about this little boo boo gaga baby type stuff i'm not
my serious stuff that can kill you same thing how you mentioned about the appendix talking
about stuff like that i'm talking about life and death man like it's tough bro kind of finding the
objective the objective nationality the defense that's your smile so the national objective for
uh social security uh expenditures and uh and everything and all these ventures have to stay
in that budget of course they they don't always do but it's uh but still it's it's a very um
a very effective way to control costs but france's health care system is not perfect french citizens
pay significantly more income tax than americans in order to cover government-funded programs such
as social security many french employers say high taxes do restrict them from hiring more people
people are very happy to to to pay nothing out of the pocket they don't always realize that on
average they pay three about 3 000 euros per year but the united states lower tax by is countered by
the fact that americans end up paying more in premiums and out-of-pocket expenses each time
they require medical care additionally doctors in france make less money than those in the
united states french general practitioners make on average nearly one hundred and twelve thousand
dollars a year in america a general practitioner can expect to make around two hundred eighteen
thousand this gap in wages however does not factor in the cost of becoming a doctor in each country
american doctors must take on the cost of medical school while french doctors receive that
education free american doctors also must pay for malpractice insurance whereas such lawsuits are
not a big issue in france a common complaint in france is that certain areas do not have as much
access to health care as others however france has more doctors per resident than the united
states does for every 1 000 residents france has 3.4 doctors whereas the united states only has 2.6
some french hospitals are also struggling with the rising costs to care for patients the fact
that budgets are very tight generates lots of tensions so hospitals are under a lot of pressure
right now so what can the united states learn from the french system france's social security proves
it's possible to cover every citizen without a government-run system regulating choice and
how doctors practice medicine it also shows that universal healthcare coverage can co-exist with
private insurance basically france has really done it right as the world health organization
said very good health outcomes everybody's covered all their citizens all their alien
workers tourists and half our costs so i think they're doing a lot of things right
they're definitely doing a lot of things right man like it's really impressive what i hear you
know because i personally you know i've never used uh healthcare like that it's just probably
my first time i'm gonna have to use healthcare it's gonna probably be in finland um shortly
probably both i'm gonna use public and private you know so um yeah it's kind of crazy you know but
all the best man all the best i don't know what america is going to do about this i don't think
america is going to do anything about it because i still a lot of people always be talking about the
democrats through the future and they they care and all of that bernie sanders scared
he cared but he not the leader for a reason right so um it's kind of tough but um
i don't know what to say i like this is all the best man all the best to america
because just think about this think about being broke think about being poor you do not go to
the doctor at all because you're not covered man like you got to have all this insurance
you got to have a specific doctor that you can go to like they all this is just financial you know
milk in the cow if you understand what i'm trying to say it's not that it's that expensive it's just
that we're trying to milk the cow that it's that simple but um it is what it is man uh but yeah
gotta get out of here guys i hope y'all enjoy the video and now let me know y'all feedback how y'all
feel about this man shout out to friends keep doing what y'all doing over there man i really
uh appreciate y'all taking care of folks over there but um yeah i'm out of here guys peace