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Just to give a different perspective, I think it's fair to say French people are very worried that healthcare quality is decreasing. I don't know if it's really
by yodsanklai 10y ago
Just to give a different perspective, I think it's fair to say French people are very worried that healthcare quality is decreasing. I don't know if it's really the case but in any case, the system is far from being perfect.
For one thing, some care are very expensive, like dental crowns and implants. In the article, the author says he had to pay 1300 euros for 47 days in the hospital. You're likely to pay more for one dental implant, unless you have a very good insurance in addition to the regular social security (most people don't).
If you have to go to the ER and if you don't have a life threatening condition, expect to wait many hours in an overcrowded waiting room. Moreover, to see some specialists (e.g. eye doctor), you may have to wait for months to get an appointment. The list goes on...
- RobertoG 10y agoIt seems to me that, as a society, to choose for a longer waiting list and uglier waiting room it's a small price to pay in exchange of healthcare for everybody. About the decreasing quality: there is a clear pattern where, you cut financing of public resources and, then, you can show how bad they work and how best a private system would be.
- rtpg 10y agoThe eye doctor thing always confused me. I would have to call 2 months in advance to get a routine eye check! What?? It feels like it's purely because of government limiting the number of optomitrists. It reeks of some doctor's association lobbying the education ministry to keep the incoming number low (there's a hard limit set by the gov't on the amount of people who can study medicine). For comparison, in Tokyo I can walk into any optometrist office without an appointment and just wait 15 minutes or so