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> Regarding healthcare, the successive governments have tried to limit the healthcare expenses

But, France has Free Healthcare… ?

If they socialized healthcare then why are they dealing with such a scarcity issue? All citizens are paying for it out of their taxes. Why isn’t it working?

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The funding of the healthcare (and pensions also) has to come from somewhere. Here, it is a mandatory percentage on top of the salary (so a part of the population don't contribute, some contribute more, and everybody can get the basic healthcare). And the higher the contributions, the higher the cost of the labour. The right-wing says that it is a big problem for the competitiveness of the French economy. It can be regulated in several ways: changing the amount of the contributions, changing the level of healthcare by several means (scarcity, lower reimbursements, fewer resources for hospitals…), controlling the doctors' fees and the price of the medications, trying to make the hospitals more efficient, avoiding unnecessary acts… In the last decades, governments have done a bit of all of that. People are unhappy, caregivers are exhausted and feel underpaid, the system is in debt and there is no consensus for the solutions.

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