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Canada.
As someone else mentioned the current government is trying to make things worse so we can have American style hearth care.
Primary care can be hit or miss. For my own GP I have to travel a bit back to my home town to see them because it's a bit painful to find a new one where I'm at now. It also might take a day or two to get an appointment.
It is far from perfect but I'm incredibly doubtful that private health care would improve anything at all. I just don't think the incentives align that could allow for it at all.
Canada
Conservative governments are trying to kill universal healthcare across the country and where they have privatized it, it does not produce better outcomes, it just costs more.
The big difference from US care, aside from costs, is that Canada does not waste money on a plethora of pointless testing. When testing is required, it is prioritized which upsets people who are addicted to seeing doctors and insist on tests they don't need. The system is heavily abused by a few people.
One patient in Quebec racked up 362 visits in one year.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/health/article/one-quebecer-saw-a-family-doctor-362-times-in-a-year/
Remember: this guy is the harm-reduction candidate. Poliestre would welcome American-style Mercenary healthcare for the country, like it is in Edmonton, demolishing what we have now for his rich friends.
It's all part of Epstein's plan to kill off poor people no doubt.
Not that I didn't give up on those poor people, because they vote against themselves each time.
This astounds me. I've heard over and over again that "the waiting lists" in univeral health care countries kill people. But when I have an active bladder infection and I call the GP group (because goodness knows I've rarely seen the same provider twice), the best they can do is to "squeeze me in" eight days later.
I mean, I can often get an appt same day. Sometimes within a couple of hours of when I’m booking it. AND it costs me nothing. Australia