[GovernmentShrinker]

There may well have been a lot of incompetence involved -- aggravated by the fact that the patient couldn't speak or understand French, and thus couldn't understand what was being said by the doctors and nurses attending her. But incompetence isn't homicide.

I don't know much about France's health care system, but given that this is the country with the nutty 35-hour work week limit, I assume it's some sort of socialist monstrosity. Incompetence is certainly the norm in the UK's socialist health care system, and it probably is in France's as well. But in fairness to the unfortunate professionals who have to work in these systems, the systems can overwhelm even competent doctors and nurses, and that may well be what happened in this case.

[Killing Time]

Actually the French healthcare system regularly scores best in the world in the OECD rankings.

It is a very pragmatic mixture of socialised and private which does appear to deliver consistently outstanding health outcomes for a much lower proportion of GDP than the US.

However, like the French welfare system the health system is proving to be financially unsustainable. The fact that the French are the world champion hypochondriacs doesn't help.