Sarkozy was elected in 2008 and he significantly lowered what national healthcare pays for you. You now need to pay for both a national healthcare and a private insurance to complete the cost. Problem is national healthcare is not a real insurance, what you pay is based on your salary, not your actual risk. So people with no risk end up paying much more than they would with a private insurance. My family in the Netherlands and Switzerland pay way less than I do.
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Those sources don't appear to quote any hard numbers, and don't seem to dispute the WHO's methodology, but then again I can't read French :)
Sarkozy was elected in 2008 and he significantly lowered what national healthcare pays for you. You now need to pay for both a national healthcare and a private insurance to complete the cost. Problem is national healthcare is not a real insurance, what you pay is based on your salary, not your actual risk. So people with no risk end up paying much more than they would with a private insurance. My family in the Netherlands and Switzerland pay way less than I do.
The WHO report is back from 2000, so it's certainly possible the rankings have changed since.