I am happy with our health care system. As I have just been through chemo I has used it extensively over the last couple of year. Financially our contribution is small and not noticed off the pay cheque. You may have a long wait in emergency. But this is more related to a shortage of doctors. If you have a family doctor you can see him. The length of time before you do is dependent on of course what you have. You still determine how soon you see him. If he already has booking for the day then you will have to wait till he can squeeze you in. If it can wait a day or two that is how you make your appointment. If you don't have a family doctor you can go to a walk-in clinic. These are numerious but because there is no appointments made there are wait times. Cat scans and MRI may take 2 weeks depending on what is wrong. Exotic expensive test may requie a trip to the U.S. because the machines are booked up. We hear horror stories of U.S. citizens loosing everything because they get seriously ill. That just doesn't sit well. We have bus loads of Americans coming up to get their prescriptions filled because they are cheaper. Could the system be better? No doubt. But the system works.
