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I cannot comment on Israel, but it is true (anecdotally) for Canada. Doctor and medicine shortages - day-long waits for ER care - hospitals overflowing with el

I cannot comment on Israel, but it is true (anecdotally) for Canada. Doctor and medicine shortages - day-long waits for ER care - hospitals overflowing with elderly patients - etc.... I have had far worse experiences in Canada than in the US.

beagle3 5y ago
Iirc Canada doesn’t actually have a private system, does it? Israel has an excellent, though very unpleasant, free public system; and also a parallel private system that’s as expensive as the US (but that has a very distinct use profile because of the existence of the public system). You’ll almost always get to see an ER doctor within a couple of hours in the public system, and a junior specialist for a non-emergency within a couple of weeks, but if you want the real expert specialist, you’ll wait 6 months in the public system, or 2 weeks if you go private. Time constants from the center / Tel Aviv area. I heard they are worse the farther away you are - but then, 90% of the population is within a 2 hour drive of Tel Aviv, and the rest are less than 4 hours drive or 40 minute flight.