> while in the US or France, it is almost immediate. You seem to operate under the assumption that healthcare in France is private. It isn't. It's underfunded

> while in the US or France, it is almost immediate. You seem to operate under the assumption that healthcare in France is private. It isn't. It's underfunded and has had a gaping deficit for as long as I can remember, but it still sort of works. > The government doesn't have a profit motive, thus they have no incentives. The government doesn't have a "profit motive". They have what is called a "mandate to deliver a public service". Which means that they're not going to deliberately screw over non-profitable areas. Not to say that everything is rosy (see, eg, the absolutely shameful state of the French penal system), but they're trying. As a bonus, you can compare the (privatized) UK railroad system and the (still public) French railroad system, and run a customer satisfaction survey.