Everyone in France gets health insurance. When someone has a difficult disease, such as cancer, the national health system steps in and pays for 100 percent of the care.
Unlike in the United States, insurance in France is not linked to employment, nor is there a lifetime limit on how much treatment a long-term survivor like Hubert can get.
The guarantee of health insurance is the first reason why cancer experts around the world look to France as a model for cancer treatment and care. Another is that cancer care is well organized at the national and hospital levels. To treat patients, a hospital or clinic has to prove it meets national standards for high-level care. It must treat a minimum number of patients a year, and it must use a team of doctors, nurses and others to provide coordinated care.
The title is misleading – the health care is not “free” – someone is paying for it, most likely with very high taxes. And who decides when enough treatment is enough? It would have to be the state.
You stated the obvious before I could, Branford. What a lie! This money is stolen from taxpayers. This enforced “freedom” results in euthenasia, abortions, and other despicable national sins, as efficiency replaces compassion. And compassion can never come from the state. It can only come from willing individuals freely acting in their families, churches or charities to provide for “the least of us.”
I’m saddened by the deceptiveness of this piece.