Is it true that France has Free health care/college tuition and childcare?
Rillifane gave the most accurate answer. We don’t have a socialized health care system as in the UK, we have a “socialized” health insurance system. It means we are free to see any doctor we want or go to any hospital/clinic, which is not the case with the American HMO system where you have to stay within a network. The state health insurance reimburses your expenses up to 65 to 100 %. Most things are paid back 70 or 80 %. (People below a certain income level get free health care). To cover the rest, you can purchase a private health insurance (mutuelle complémentaire) if you want, but prices range from 10 € a month for a student to 50 €/month for a family for a super fancy health insurance. If you have no private health insurance and have to pay out of pocket the remaining 20% of a bill, if you go to hospital for 5 days to get surgery for appendicitis, it will cost you 614 euros. So nothing to do with US prices. But technicaly, since most people get the complementary insurance, yes, m
