Well the only conclusion I can draw is that there are some things their health service does well, and some that ours does better.
I just don't think it's fair to say "the French system is better".
My step mother lived there for ten years, her sister has lived there for 30, and even my wife lived there for a year. All of them will tell you the NHS is far better than the French system.
You have to fork out up front, and then get reimbursed, and you can be sure you won't get it all back...
Point taken, but surely it's the overwhelming extent of support for a strike that tells you Hunt might have got this badly wrong? For all this bluster about governments of the day being the baddies and the doctors being the goodies, we have to remember that people as assets shouldn't be taken...