French Care for Everyone Means Unwanted Generic Medicine
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Anita Manfredi got 18 mud baths, nine massages and 12 spray showers at a spring water spa last month. The French state footed two-thirds of the $1,022 bill.
“The treatment has done me a lot of good,” says Manfredi, a retiree who suffers from arthritis and has taken a three-week retreat at the southern French spa town of Dax for the past four years. “I no longer have flare-ups.”