Regarding healthcare, the successive governments have tried to limit the healthcare expenses by limiting the numerus clausus of trained medicine students (with the support of the doctor unions). Now there is more demand than offer (which goes to the most attractive areas), the scarcity is really high in the countryside, you can wait for months for an appointment and it will take years before new doctors are trained. There are several worrying structural problems, but compared to some other countries healthcare is quite affordable and high quality.

France has great healthcare but the downside of socialized medicine is rationing.

The healthcare is quite good and cheap but you have to be in the system. This means you have to have a family doctor and to have already seen the main specialists that you need. Then you can get an appt within days (usually by calling the secretary directly rather than on doctolib).

But yeah dermatology is in particularly high demand for some reason.

Yeah, they're a riot.

> schools

not sure if this is sarcasm or if you've been living under a rock for the past month.

“Amazing healthcare” != “near future appointments readily available”

spend less time on Twitter/X

They do, compared to America and other third world social systems.