Image by iwmpop via Flickr I live in France , as most of you know, and I'm happy to say that France has one of, if indeed not the best, National Health Assurance systems, in the world. Image via Wikipedia Being of British Nationality , but having spent most of my adult life in Germany , I've had experience with all of those other systems, as well as many others - countries where I have worked. Whilst it is true that I've never really had to use them often until recently, I am impressed by the services offered, once you understand them! If, like me, you are classified as "long term illness" - which includes many things, notably Heart conditions, but also Diabetics and many other conditions, then you are taken in charge for all of your medicaments, all treatments, even for the transport by taxi or ambulance or emergency services to wherever you need to go, at 100%. The only complaints I would have is the lack of (as usual) Dental Treatment - those gangst...

All the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/industry/Hospitals" title="Hospitals" rel="wikinvest">hospital</a> arrange + publish   Wednesday, January 25, 2006 (edited and republished January 2011) Healthy Hospitals (continued) So, I reckon you must have got the idea now about how this system works, with little sticky labels of all colours, depending on what you’ve got/haven’t got are/are not! Bit like the Concentration camps really, and the food is just as bad! You won’t see many of these.... Anyway, having got my little sticky labels, called etiquette's, without which you go or get nowhere/nothing, I hurried off to my next confrontation – my room! Not being rich, I didn’t have a private room, and in any case, in my limited experience of such things, I never stay much in the room anyway, just for the necessary things, I’m always wandering around! This meant, of cours...