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I guess you're talking about healthcare for the unemployed or non-residents or non-French people, because if you're employed there is additionnal and mandatory healthcare. There's still basic free healthcare if you don't yet fit well in the system but it's like for example to remove a tooth instead of clean it and reconstruct it.

>>domini+(OP)
No, I am talking about everyone.

> because if you're employed there is additionnal and mandatory healthcare

Yes, if you are employed in the private sector there is now mandatory additional private health insurance to cover what public healthcare does not.

Healthcare isn't free at the point of use in any case. Things may be automatically paid/reimbursed as the case may be. Private sector is much more involved than in the UK, too, starting from GPs who are all private practices.

The point is that it's not because you have to pay at point of use or because things are more private that you end up like in the US. This is an FUD argument against change.

>>mytail+q4
All the GP practices in England are private businesses working under contract to the NHS. Most people don't notice since the majority of services are covered under that contract.

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads...

>>harvey+4p
Yes they are but they are indeed service providers as you mention.

That's quite different from a private practice (like a solicitor here) that you pay directly and/or that seeks payment from health insurance.

>>mytail+mA
There are a great many things that the NHS pays practices for on a unit basis which is very much like them seeking payment from an insurer. The system has a far lower administrative cost than the USA model but the contract management process still looks more like a plate of spaghetti and not a circuit diagram.