American newbie

[philathome]

Bonjour,all.
My name is Phil and I am from New york;I am a frequent poster on many American political and social message boards and am interested in the opinions of the French people of the U.S. and its recent political history.
I am particularly interested in how Europeans feel about their healthcare systems,as the U.S. is at this time involved in a heated debate over healthcare reform.Many U.S. citizens seem to think that France and other European nations are dissatisfied with their healthcare and would rather have a system like ours;I am a New Yorker,but I won't address that in typical New York fashion,I'll just say I disagree. [/u]

[Jenny]

Bonjour Phil and welcome to our forum. I'm afraid there are not many French people on this forum as it is aimed at English speakers who want to find out information about France.

France's health care system is one of the best in the world as reported by the World Health Organization in 2000. Some people in France praise the system and others criticise it: you cannot please all the people all of the time!

You can do a comparison of different systems on the WHO's webiste: http://apps.who.int/whosis/data/Search.jsp