Similarities Between American And French Health Care System

France and the United Kingdom share many differences and similarities when it comes to social, health care, and immigration policy. In order to fully understand these policy areas in the two countries you must comprehend their history and their political systems. France and the United Kingdoms histories and political systems are what shape their policies into what they are today.
Health care policy a. The French sickness funds are primarily funded by the earmarked taxes and the payroll taxes, while the British Nationalized health care system funding mostly comes out of the general taxes. The government in the United Kingdom does not have to utilize employment based insurance due to the funding coming from general taxation, this reduces some of the strain from the employer to pay for health care. In contrast the French utilize insurance funds that are employment based; the employees and the employers pay a payroll tax in order to have national health insurance: “Employers pay 12.8 percent of total payroll into the general system” Adolino and Blake (2011, 258). Employers feel pressure from the government to provide health care for their employees due to the French health care system.
Britain has capitation payment for its general practitioners while France has a fee for service for general practitioners. The amount of money general practitioners receive for treating patients typically will increase their motivation to treat more: “capitation reimbursements is the key aspect of GP compensation; it constitutes half of their income”. Adolino and Blake (2011, 263) Then the rest of their income is coming from the “merit based pay” they receive from the government. British general practitioners are typically in competition in order to receive the most clients. While the French general practitioners have a set salary, which leaves them with no room to