France
Health care in France is characterized by a system of private and public physicians who largely draw their income from the national health service. There are public as well as private hospitals.
Patients pay a small copay for certain aspects of care, but many people choose to cover these costs by taking out supplemental health insurance for which a small premium is payable each year.
Thus, France also has a mixed delivery system with complete patient freedom of supplier choice. There is a two-tier funding arrangement with compulsory funding of core medical services from taxation with optional private insurance for the cost of copays.
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