Cheap Health Insurance.
I just priced out family coverage for $128/mo. I can afford that and I earn less than $20K a year. (happily single)
I have never purchased coverage through my job. What a waste. Buy your own health care insurance, and if you have to change jobs, it doesn't matter. Most places I personally have been, allowed you to keep your insurance after you leave your job.
Part of the problem seems to be lazy people. The fact that no one wants to get up and take responsibility, but instead wants to wait for the job to cover them. Then they feel helpless when between jobs. It is also amazing the number of people who complain about high cost, but have no problem going to bars, playing the lotto, smoking cigs, watching cable TV, having the latest greatest cell phone, have a 400-watt stereo and on and on.
Finely for those really messed up by a pre-existing condition, Medicaid covers that. If you didn't know, there really isn't any completely uninsured. Medicaid covers a wide range of people, notably low income.
I'll look at the WHO link later. Regardless, to rank that mess in France as number one indicates to me, they have some way whacked values. France's health care system is headed for disaster.
