Google vs Microsoft: Health Plan

Most of you might know that I am French and we have the SECU (French Social Security).
So yesterday when I read on the Wall Street Journal Google was launching Google Health, I was very interested to read the article.
To sum-up very fast Google Health is the idea of offering a central, online account for storing and monitoring a patient's medical data. It will allow every American to access their health history from everywhere and share it with their doctors faster and easier. Hospital could access the patient information in case of emergency.
Besides, the privacy and security issues that might comes up,

I talked with one of my colleague about the announcement and confirmed it was an improvement for the US citizens. So when I told him it was already existing in France because of the SECU he started to say bad words.

Let's go back to the announcement made on Google's blog because it is reflecting the next field of battle between Google and Microsoft and Revolution Health. In addition with the mobile battle and Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. We can predict some upcoming interesting weeks and month.
We all know that Microsoft cannot let the Web the monopoly of Google last forever..

btw - Michael Moore in his last movie Sicko explained the social security in the US, in France and Cuba.