Y'know erimir, I get your frustrations with purist leftists who won't hold their noses and vote, but I find you commentary on this stuff to be increasingly in bad faith. To pick just one example, to describe France as not having single payer healthcare just doesn't seem to match a bit of cursory internet research. e.g.
French Health: Overview of health system in France
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Health care in France is funded by a dual system of health insurance comprising:
A State controlled health insurance social security system, called l’assurance maladie and;
A separate voluntary health insurance system called assurance complémentaire provided through mutual organisations and private insurers.
Whilst the social security system picks up most of your health costs, you will need to take out voluntary health insurance to cover those medical costs that will not be picked up by the State, although it is not compulsory to do so.
We will review voluntary ('top-up') insurance in later pages but, for now, we just consider the State funded part of the system.
Accordingly, in order to obtain access to the health service in France, and obtain reimbursement of costs, you need to be registered with l’assurance maladie.
Historically, l’assurance maladie comprised a number of private or mutual insurance bodies who collected insurance premiums from their clients, which were then used to pay for the costs of health care.
They developed after the Second World War as a series of mutual schemes between employers and employees, and the present arrangements still bear the hallmarks of this approach.
Although the insurance funds continue to be ostensibly ‘private’ organisations they now operate under the supervision of the government, who have ultimate financial responsibility.
Accordingly, the funds are now effectively a branch of the state social security system.
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