Wasteful and Unjust

Get out the freedom fries! Roger Cohen of the NYT compares French and American health care:

Some of my summer in France was spent listening to indignant outbursts
about U.S. health care reform. The tone: “You must be kidding! What’s there to
debate if 46.3 million Americans have no health insurance?”

I think the French are right. I don’t think there’s much to debate when
France spends 11 percent of its gross domestic product on health care and
insures everyone and the United States spends 16.5 percent of G.D.P. and leaves
20 percent of adults under 65 uninsured. The numbers don’t lie: The U.S. system
is wasteful and unjust.