[wyoh]

There is no such thing as free health care or free education. You pay it through heavy taxation where France is the champion.

[flexie]

European healthcare and education is great, far cheaper than American, and it is indeed free for many of the patients and students.

[unity1001]

Compared to how US private healthcare sucks the blood out of Americans, French healthcare is pretty much 'free'.

[fmajid]

Half of all US healthcare is paid for my the Federal government (Medicare, Medicaid and VA). Since the US spends nearly twice as much as a proportion of GDP and more since US GDP is higher, the Federal share of US health care alone is more than the entire French spending as a proportion of GDP.