In Chapter 4 we saw that, when the postwar welfare order in Britain came into contact with a rising neoliberal current, center-left politicians reframed the problem of social inequality in terms of health. In order to avoid violating a self-imposed taboo against discussing redistribution, Labour leaders took up the issue of health inequality, which appeared to allow the party to maintain its long-standing commitment to a more equitable society without raising the specter of taxing high incomes. Health inequality has played an analogous discursive role in French politics, allowing French center-left leaders to avoid discussing a sensitive topic made salient by the collision between France’s conservative-corporatist postwar welfare order and the neoliberal paradigm that came to dominate Europe in the 1980s.