France's Health-Care System Is Going Broke

The health system exceeds its budget by billions of euros each year, and in the face of rising costs, taxpayer-funded benefits such as spa treatments, which the French have long justified as preventive care, now look more like expendable luxuries. “Reform is needed fast,” Hodin says. “The most optimistic believe this system can survive another five to six years. The less optimistic don’t think it will last more than three.”

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-03/frances-health-care-system-is-going-broke

  

They must be doing something wrong that we will do right... sumthin fer nothin is a sound economic system.