All legal residents residing in france. It is not, i repeat, it is not an example of socialized medicine like cuba. It is also not a National Health service as in the United States united kingdom. It is also not an instance of a government run Health System like our excellent Veterans Health administration. French National Health insurance in contrast is an example of public, social security, and private Health Care Financing combined with a diverse publicprivate mix in the provision of Health Care Services. The French Health care system reflects three political values embraced by americans. Liberalism in the sense of giving patients free choice of any doctor or any hospital they care to go to, with no networks, no restrictions. Second, pluralism. Everybody has a diverse choice. They can go to feeforservice, solo practitioners. They can go to group practices. They can go to Outpatient Health centers. The computer emergency risk, public or private hospital, consultations with specialist
Performance is called avoidable mortality. That is in a Good Health Care system, women should not die in child birth. People should not die of tuberculosis. People should not die of aschemic Heart Disease. People should not die of cancers that can be cured. And when we look at that, im embarrassed to say that we come out in the United States as 19 and the french come out as number 1, i repeat, number 1. That is a fact that cannot be ignored. It must be addressed. It was written up in health affairs, a reputable journal. It was confirmed with different measures by the oecd, and it has not received in my judgment sufficient discussion. Another indicator of how well a system is doing and a theme of this subcommittee that i know is dear to chairman sanders is access to primary care. You can talk about primary care until youre blue in the face, but lets look at the consequences of whether you receive primary care or not in Different Health care systems. We have a very established measure of
Industry, supported by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Up next on cspan 3, the ceo of cvs, larry merlo talks about cvs and corporate responsibility. Global Health Care Systems and medicare fraud. And combatting hiv aids. A couple of live events to tell you about over on cspan. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann will talk about the infwluns of the tea Party Heading into the midterm elections. In the afternoon, defense secretary chuck hagel will deliver remarks to the association of the u. S. Army. Hes expected to talk about the number of active Duty Service Members needed to meet u. S. Strategic needs, live coverage begins at 12 30 eastern. Now remarks from cvs, he suss the companys decision this year to stop selling Tobacco Products including e cigarettes. This part of his remarks from the National Press club is about 20 minutes. Thank you for their warm welcome and gamp, everybody. The impact that thats having on consum
Create ative to seven minute documentary on the three branchings and you, videos need to include cspan programs and must be submitted by january 20, 2015. Go to student cam. Org for more investigation and get started today. Now a senate panel looks at universal Health Care Systems in other countries, the discussion includes the high cost of pharmaceuticals in the u. S. , compared to other industrialized nations. This subcommittee hearing is about an hour and 40 minutes. The chair is senator Bernie Sanders of vermont. We want to thank cspan for covering this important hearing, and i especially want to thank our witnesses, some of whom have traveled from very long distances from around the world to be with us today, and we very much appreciate your being here. United states has i think a very effective form of government in the sense that we are a federalist system, which means that we have 50 separate states and it is very common that one state learns from one another state is doing. Ev
The federal government is taking a close look at options to guarantee results from newly proposed mental-health funding to provinces, according to Canada s mental health minister Carolyn Bennett.