Une Éxpérience avec le Socialisme

I had my first experience with French socialist health care today! My host family took me to get an "attestation médicale" so I can run in 5K's here. My host-family-brother does track, so he was going to get one, and then my host family was picking me up from the bus stop on the way home because the doctor's office was near one of the stops. I got in the car, and they announced that the doctor had time to see me, so we were going right now, and I was like, uh okay then. I didn't have my passport or any of my insurance information, but they were like, oh it's fine, you don't need anything. And then we got there, waited a few minutes, and the doctor took my pulse and blood pressure and stuff, and wrote me a certificate. For free!!! So obviously, I am impressed so far with the French health care system. Although the doctor's handwriting is still impossible to read...