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Paris, 9 March 2007 – While the issue of the future of the health system is conspicuous by its absence during the presidential campaign and that a showdown is pitting unions of general practitioners against public health insurance over tariffs, time has come to rethink seriously health cost containment policies in France, according to a new study released by the Institut économique Molinari. “We must yield to evidence. Whereas letting…

Paris, le 9 mars 2007 – Alors que le thème de l’avenir du système de santé est le grand absent de la campagne présidentielle et qu’un bras de fer tarifaire oppose les syndicats de médecins généralistes à l’assurance maladie, il est temps selon une nouvelle étude de l’Institut économique Molinari de reconsidérer sérieusement la politique de maîtrise publique des dépenses de santé en France. « Il faut se rendre à…

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Article published by the Financial Times on February 23, 2007, p. 13. The European Commission seems to recognise no limits in its drive to impose tax harmonisation across Europe. Having issued a sanction against Luxembourg last July for its preferential tax regime pertaining to holding companies, Brussels is now trying to put pressure on countries even outside the EU by targeting Swiss cantonal tax competition and their tax breaks and…

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Article published in the EU Reporter (January-February2007, p. 30). In their endeavor to cut back on costs, public health systems throughout Europe resort more and more to drug delisting. Beyond the fact that they may prove to be inefficient, these measures also reflect an alarming trend towards bureaucratization of healthcare by these monopolistic schemes. France provides a fitting example of this trend.