Sure, you can coin a definition of "free" that excludes France, but you can do that for any country, including (and perhaps especially) the United States.
(or perhaps you were being sarcastic)
What you probably wish to argue is something like: "Those unique 'American freedoms' that ostensibly result in such a crappy health care system --- and the inevitability and necessity of this is highly debatable --- do not contribute nearly as much to actual freedom as you seem to think."
What you are actually arguing is: "There exists no sensible definition of freedom wherein the citizens of the United States are free and the citizens of France are not."
A disagreement which continues from this point will devolve quickly into an argument about when and how ideas are "sensible". This is perhaps a really interesting topic when pursued in its own right, but the assertion has, at that point, effectively derailed future debate about the different freedoms enjoyed by the French and Americans.
haha. Funny comment. There are probably a thousands ways the US is more Free than France. Let's not start by checking all the administrative barriers to do ANYTHING in France. The US is certainly not an exemplary model for Freedom anymore, but trying to compare France and US in terms of Freedom is a lost battle.
Freedom in USA and France is decreasing because citizens are not involving themselves in the functioning of the Republics we live in.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
This should be quoted on the internet by the way.
EX: On September 11, 2001, the FBI had a list of 16 people deemed "no transport" because they "presented a specific known or suspected threat to aviation."[6]... In April 2007, the United States government "terrorist watch list" administered by the Terrorist Screening Center, which is managed principally by the FBI, contained 700,000 records.[15] A year later, the ACLU estimated the list to have grown to over 1,000,000 names and to be continually expanding. Note: There are no where near 1,000,000 known terrorists this is just name matching including known alias and including anyone close and well into the 90+% false positives.
On the World Bank economic rankings of the easiest place to start a business, which is what Forbes have been using to bash France, France does score rather badly at 41st place, but the US is only at 20th place. Mind you, I am not sure if I should take these figures all that seriously. Rwanda is 9th, apparently, while being 53rd on ease of getting electricity.