Doctor visit are never free in France you always pay 1€ which is deducted from future reimbursements.
Also you still have to pay 70% of the 25€ unless you have additional private insurance.
While the usage of pronouns in this particular article has no impact on gender equality, the sum of the hundreds of other that do the same absolutely have one.
It feed the expectation that hacker are all men, which push away women, which makes it more true.
And since most people are not aware of this it does make sense to inform them.
They are as good as Google for me, sometime slightly worse, sometime slightly better, and I didn't even change my searching habits when I switched.
Also you can turn on or off localized results easily if you need to, which is hard with Google.
The only thing I'm really missing is the good completion while typing.