Health-care in France
There's been much debate about health-care in the US. I have experienced both and can only give you my opinion as I experienced them.
To understand health-care in France, I need to first go back when I retired from corporate America in 2002. When I worked, I had great health-care coverage. The problem began when I retired. I went on Cobra, but had to secure coverage before it expired in 18-months. I retired at a relatively young age and was not eligible for medicare. I thought since I was relatively young, healthy and only had two pre-existing conditions, high blood pressure and gout, and that the record showed that I maintained these conditions with medication, I should have no problem getting health insurance: I was so wrong on so many levels. I saw several advertisements saying e.g., "A Blue Company" offered coverage as a low as $80 a month. I checked into it and was ineligible because of my pre-existing conditions. The low teaser rates were just that, teaser rates. The only ones eligible for those rates are 18-year olds with no history of any medical problems and probably lived in a bubble! And, the coverage is basic, high deductible, high copay, catastrophic coverage.
