[Securing shared medical records].

Established in law on August 13th, 2004, the personal medical records system was intended to ensure better treatment at lower cost, notably by avoiding redundant examinations and incompatible treatments. The system should have been implemented on January 1st, 2007, for all people with medical insurance coverage. Various difficulties, and particularly problems of confidentiality, led to successive postponements.

[French national health insurance. The current situation].

An audit of the French national health insurance system would be justified by economic considerations alone, but this would risk overlooking the notions of solidarity and freedom to which the French are rightly attached. European comparisons suggest, however, that our system could be made more efficient without undermining public health. The national health insurance system allows each member of the population to receive high-quality medical care.