France
Health care in France is characterized by a system of private and public physicians who largely draw their income from the national health service. There are public as well as private hospitals.
Patients pay a small copay for certain aspects of care, but many people choose to cover these costs by taking out supplemental health insurance for which a small premium is payable each year.
Thus, France also has a mixed delivery system with complete patient freedom of supplier choice. There is a two-tier funding arrangement with compulsory funding of core medical services from taxation with optional private insurance for the cost of copays.
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Famous quotes containing the word france:
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)