From the Wall Street Journal – ”France Fights Universal Care’s High Cost“:

When Laure Cuccarolo went into early labor on a recent Sunday night in a village in southern France, her only choice was to ask the local fire brigade to whisk her to a hospital 30 miles away. A closer one had been shuttered by cost cuts in France’s universal health system.
Ms. Cuccarolo’s little girl was born in a firetruck…
“We were providing good-quality obstetric services,” he says. “But at a very high cost.” Since the maternity closed, he says, the hospital narrowed its deficit and began reallocating resources toward geriatric services, which are in high demand.

You don’t say.