>That link appeared more like a term paper to me and the author did not have sufficient knowledge of either system IMHO. Here is a link from the OECD which goes into much better detail from the economics standpoint:
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http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/49/1864965.pdfIt would be very interesting to see how does it fare today, i.e. what's the state of the problems laid out in that text almost ten years ago. And then find a similar paper about US health industry from the same year, and compare to how it is today.
Speaking of statistics, I've come to a very simple way to gauge (un)employment. Compare the official numbers of people in the country vs the number of people employed vs the number of unemployed... adding the latter two should give the workforce, right? Ok then, have a graph of the percentage of workforce in general population over the years, for different countries. Should be interesting.
(IOW - gasoline yours, ideas ours)
