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French person here, a lot of my French friends from high school went into med school. Free universities, no debts, heavy unionization, you can easily move to nu

• tsotha 13y ago
  It's not really free, though. It's just paid by someone else.
  • tobylane 13y ago
    The US is switching over to 'not' paying for healthcare, at the point of sale at least. The next thing to be changed like that would probably be education.
    • tsotha 13y ago
      I certainly hope not. The whole reason the higher education system is messed up is the government is pumping money into it.
      • tobylane 13y ago
        Cite? Endowments are good, if your place can get them. I wouldn't say the UK system is great as it isn't stable.
  • GuiA 13y ago
    It's free for the students; that's one of the points of the article, that financial debt can be an obstacle to personal liberties.
    • tsotha 13y ago
      High taxes are an obstacle to personal liberties, too.
      • Crake 13y ago
        I know you probably don't agree with this, but to many people (including myself), not having access to health care or qualified physicians would be considered a pretty big obstacle to personal liberty as well. (You can't do anything if you're dead, after all.)
        • tsotha 13y ago
          The amount doctors get paid isn't what drives medical costs in the US.
          • therobot24 13y ago
            so highly qualified individuals shouldn't be paid well?
            • tsotha 13y ago
              I don't know where you got that from anything I wrote.
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      • johnchristopher 13y ago
        So are children and stepmothers. Your point ? > High taxes are an obstacle to personal liberties, too. No. Taxes are spread out among the population. Financial debt is burdening only one individual. In Europe, in France and Belgium, we like to think solidarity is a good thing.
        • Crake 13y ago
          That's what's wrong with a lot of Americans, IMO. It's every man for himself, screw your neighbors. If something bad happens to someone else, they deserved it for reason X. (X being: they didn't work "hard enough," they were "lazy," etc when the person in question is often less lazy and harder working than the person complaining about them) I actually had a classmate tell me the other day that me being able to get the medications I need to stay alive (because of the ACA) was going to drive the country bankrupt and (direct quote here) "destroy America." In my experience, my countrymen do not care for others very much--only themselves.
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  • derleth 13y ago
    Their healthcare overall costs less than US health care, though. So, not free, but it does, in fact, cost less.
    • tsotha 13y ago
      What's your point?
      • derleth 13y ago
        That focusing on the fact it's tax-paid is missing the point.
        • tsotha 13y ago
          No, I think the fact that it's tax paid is exactly his point.
  • rrreese 13y ago
    Why abuse the language? Almost every thing that is free is paid by some one else. Free means free to the person receiving the good/service. I appreciate English may not be your first language, but if you want to point out the costs, there are better ways then redefining the word free.
  • robmil 13y ago
    Such as doctors who are further on in their careers — it's actually rather a nice system, where those who have been lucky enough to be successful can help out those who need it, and all benefit.
  • gte910h 13y ago
    The word free means nothing if you insist on this definition.