Organ Donation in France

Reading the article about the first face transplant I learned that if you are brain dead in France, it is assumed that you are an organ donor:

Brain-dead patients in France are presumed to be organ donors unless theyhave
made explicit provisions to the contrary, and approval by next of kin is not
normally required. But given the delicacy of the case, the donor's family was
consulted about the possible harvesting of part of the donor's face during
the initial interviews that are undertaken to ensure that the deceased had
not given instructions preventing organ donations.

So, without doing research, I'm going to make the wild supposition that it's easier to get an organ transplant in the "socialist" French health care system than it is in the free-market U.S. system.

From I.Kidney.com I find a synopsis of an U.S. research paper that advocates changing to the French, now European, system of the presumptive donor protocol.