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My daughter here in France had a bike accident two months ago which requires 14 stitches in her foot.

We received 3 follow-up visits from nurses to clean and redress her wounds --

We pay about 100€ a month for supplemental private insurance on top of the public health insurance here --

Total cost for us? about 40€. We would have had to pay about 100€ more for the nurses' visits, but the mutuelle covered it.

These are some of the reasons why my wife and I moved from the US to France -- she's French, I'm American; but I can't imagine returning to the nightmare complexity of billings and profiteering that the US system has become...