Ask your friend about waiting lists. Also, my experience, and I am not from France, but another Western European country, is that these sort of health care systems do well on broken arms and runny noses, but not so much on cancer, diabetes and other major diseases.
pay cash and no wait. The cost is so cheap that it’s easy to pay cash.
I’ve been to hospital in Germany twice in last 3 years. The first was a full emergency surgery operation and plush 3 day stay in lavish hospital - total cost 2,000€ cash
Second event was a one day hospital stay plus 4 follow up visits with all sorts of exorbitant techno tests and lab mumbo jumbo by a bunch of MD specialists - total
cost 1,200€ cash
It’s because their system isn’t corrupt. Our systems is corrupt through and through
It is an emphasis on treating younger, productive citizens and less concern on the expense of ailments associated with old age.
France used to be called womb to tomb socialism. Is that still the case?
I heard a few years back that the National Holiday Month no longer exists because of the parasites draining the social coffers.
About a two decades ago a Frenchie I know told me that in France just about every one is equally poor. But that there were great opportunities to receive education, stable work, and reasonable health “maintenance” care; but that taxes were astronomical in order to have these benefits. He was generally contented but now with the cultural compromises being realized, I wonder if that is still the outlook by those who watch socialistic benefits erode before their very eyes.
If I’d been paying 35% tax when I was working,I’d have had to take all my meals & spend most of my time in the hospital to live on what was left.
See Princess Diana. Helped to die by the French healthcare system. Once in an ambulance they did not hurry to the hospital where the doctors were. They think the patient can be stabilized in the vehicle so they do not speed. In England you are left in the ambulance if the overcrowded hallways are too crowded with patients.
Actress Natasha Richardson died from lack of helicopters in Canada to transport her to a hospital. Thousands of Canadians come to the USA as Canada lacks MRI and CAT machines. They are plentiful at clinics setup along the USA side. The Scandinavian countries which encourage you to die if you are old or not consider useful to the gov’t.