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In France if, for an average employee, you add the employer and employee contribution to social security, for 40 years, you find that it pays two large houses.

At the same time most average employees will struggle to buy a house.

And the social security will reimburse well only medical costs (visit to family doctors or medical acts done in hospitals). For other costs, hospital care, glasses, dental or hearing costs, it reimburses very little.

So for me France's SS is actually a kind of mandatory way to channel money towards doctors.