> healthcare is free to the patient at the point of delivery Sure I can offer you an rotten apple for free as the ONLY choice and claim you are getting a free

> healthcare is free to the patient at the point of delivery Sure I can offer you an rotten apple for free as the ONLY choice and claim you are getting a free apple. But that is not any better than USA where government mandates the floor on quality of apple and gives freedom to set the price (which will be high because of quality floor). Both scenarios are very different. When cost of things is distributed over large population it might not be visible to a naive mind but it is indeed the cost one ends up paying. For example wait times for an ordinary surgery in Canada are simply mindblowing: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/healthcare-wait-times-hit-20-weeks-in-2016-report-1.3171718 http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/healthcare-wait-times-hit-20-we... You wont hear an old lady complaining about wait time but you will hear a man praising that he did not pay anything for a bypass surgery.