The cabinet Minister of Health and Solidarity governs the public health care services and social security tax related to public insurance in France. The major part of the public health care system in France is funded by the national government for all legal residents in the country. France spends the largest amount of its GDP on taking care of its public health.

This funding is mainly done through a national health insurance system that refunds 70% or more of the fees paid for medical treatment. Patients with serious ailments such as cancer are provided with 100% refunds of the treatment cost. In France, there are hospitals that are fully owned by the public health department, non-profit hospitals and for profit private hospitals. More than two thirds of the hospitals in France are owned by the public and the remaining hospitals are equally owned by the non-profit NGOs and for profit organizations.

The public health care system in France has made it compulsory for all residents who earn more than five hundred and fifty Euros per month to pay a premium for national health insurance. Within the public health care system in France, poor citizens don’t need to pay any insurance premiums, but still have free access to all public healthcare facilities. The national insurance is generally managed by non-profit organizations and is not under the influence of the national government.

In France, an employee must pay 0.75% of his or her salary in order to cover the premium of the national health insurance, while employers pay 12.8% of the salary as their contribution towards the employee’s health insurance premium. Apart from these contributions, the social security tax and tax levied on investments accumulate on the national health care insurance accounts of the individuals according to the public health care system in France.

The public health care system in France consists of general physicians, specialists and the hospitals. The general physicians have the responsibility of providing information about diseases, preventing the diseases from growing in the patients and referring them to specialists and hospitals in case of serious stages of a disease. The patients have to first pay fees from their pockets for consulting the physicians or specialists, a fee which is then reimbursed up to 85% from the national health insurance organization. The national agency, named, Agence Nationale d’Accréditation et d’Evaluation en Santé, is the governing body over the physicians and specialists. It sets regulations that healthcare professionals must follow while executing their duties.