Would you move jurisdiction to avoid tax on your coinage?

[gentlemand]

Was there a great deal of resistance to it or was it an acceptable development? If they tried that in the UK people would be ripping their panties off and strangling each other.

France has top up health insurance. A friend of my father's moved there from Scotland, didn't bother sorting that out, had a huge car crash and was landed with a medical bill for many thousands of Euros.

[Lucius]

I think they were referring to the fact that completely free health care is completely unsustainable and that if something does not change that the health care system will collapse. People have accepted this, when it comes to health 10 EUR per month is not so much - and for some of the most vulnerable categories the state pays this fee and still provides free health care.

The much bigger problem is that the waiting lists for some health tests are so long (3+ months) that people are forced to go to private clinics. I recently had the choice to wait 3+ months, and in a private clinic I did everything in less than 2 days and paid about 100 EUR. Private health care has been on the rise in the last decade or so, at least in my country - it has its price, but sometimes it is the only choice.

I knew some people who suddenly ended up in the hospital without additional insurance, and as you say, the price of such treatment can be several thousand EUR.