How come health care in France is basically free?!
Question: I was reading on Wikipedia that France has the best health care system and that it is almost entirely free for people affected by chronic diseases such as cancers, AIDS or Cystic Fibrosis.
If this is true in France, why does this seem to be an impossibility in America?
Answers: I was reading on Wikipedia that France has the best health care system and that it is almost entirely free for people affected by chronic diseases such as cancers, AIDS or Cystic Fibrosis.
If this is true in France, why does this seem to be an impossibility in America?
Because they pay for it. Which means that Joe Smoe who isn't sick or in need of tremendous health care in paying for somebody who he doesn't even know by being taxed to death. Plus, the actual healthcare is not great in those countries. Not compared to the US.
Because France has much higher taxes. Say you pay 10,000 a year in taxes here, you would be paying almost double that in France
They have higher taxes in France. Actually, the employer is required to pay 12.8% to healthcare and the employees tax rate went down to 0.75% in 2001. People do also buy supplemental insurance, but at an affordable rate and there are no denials and most of the time if you are employed the employer will pay for supplemental insurance. The doctors and insurance companies, unlike in the U.S. are not motivated by money and cannot jack up their prices because it is all regulated by the govt. In France they help each other out and everyone gets healthcare. Even though they may pay a little more in taxes, they think it is worth it. Also, France does not have long wait times and they were rated to have the best healthcare system by the World Health Organization. I just wrote a paper about this btw. :)
Nothing is free. THAT is fact. Also unless you want to have a serious illness, the system is not that helpful--also FACT and from their own website!
The much lauded French system raises some questions as well. From their Embassy site (ambafrance-us.org) they state that 96 percent of the population receives free or 100 percent reimbursed health care. They state the system is part of their Social Security and is funded from worker