The French healthcare system is a two tiered system, not single payer and they have a lower debt relative to GDP than the US.No. Of the countries that have single payer systems, there is not a single one that has a debt to gdp ratio higher that the US.
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Yes, there is. France's healthcare system is billions of dollars in debt. And of course we know about Canada's issues where it takes an eternity to treated for certain medical problems. Here is an excellent, objective article about your beloved French medical system. You will find it praises many aspect of their system, but also points out it's faults and yes one of them is the public segment being deeply in debt as well as the atrocious pay of their physicians.
French Lessons On Health Care - NationalJournal.com
The wait times that Canada might experience are not caused by its being a single-payer system. Canadians have made a conscious decision to hold down costs. One of the ways they do that is by limiting supply, mostly for elective things, which can create wait times. Their outcomes are otherwise comparable to ours.
The US single payer system, Medicare does not limit supply and thus does not experience the wait times seen in Canada. We could do the same thing Canada does in the US and see similar cost savings but we choose not to.
Pretty sure I learned in econ when quantity supplied goes down and quantity demand stays the same, cost goes UP, not down. Frances debt to GDP is irrelevant. The point is their not paying for it, therefore it is unsustainable as is, which is causing them to have to cut back on what the state pays for. It would be wholly unworkable system here because it would require the pay of physicians to be cut drastically, which will reduce the supply of providers. Cheap is irrelevant if you can't get in to see anyone to be treated.