I don't really follow European health-care policies, but the friends of mine who do seem to think public health care with a private-option (e.g. France) is bett

I don't really follow European health-care policies, but the friends of mine who do seem to think public health care with a private-option (e.g. France) is better than single-payer. I've also heard that the German system works reasonably well, which is also not a single-payer system.