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- Title: When Health Care is a Sacred Principle--One Frenchwoman's Thoughts About the U.S. Health Care System (Young Feminists)
- Author : Sarah Gondy
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
Description
As a National Women's Health Network (NWHN) intern for the last nine months, I have had the opportunity to observe both the differences between the French and the U.S. health care systems, and people's experiences in trying to use the two systems. The main difference is that, in France, the principle of universal health care is cherished--and taken for granted. Despite recognition that the system is threatened by abuse and profligacy; the principle of universal access to care is not in jeopardy. In fact, we French take our health care system so much for granted that few of us ever bother to delve into its intricacies. Although the system has very simple guiding principles, its specifics are quite complicated and defy succinct explanation in such a brief newsletter article. But, in short, the French system is intended to provide health care for anyone who resides in France longer than three months, whether the person is in the country legally or not. Government statistics from 2004 suggest that up to 130,000 undocumented immigrants have access to the French health system. (1)