This article argues the larger percentage of GDP spent on health care as
compared to Britain explains the fact that France's health care system is
superior to that of Britain and that there are not long waiting lists. But
if this were so the US system should be the best rather than the worst
Published on Friday, March 9, 2001 in the International Herald Tribune
A Conservative Convert To Socialized Medicine
by David Burgess
PARIS - What's the old joke? A conservative is a liberal who has just been
mugged? Well, I am a conservative who has just been "mugged" by the socialized
French