Yes, in Moscow public medicine gets better every year. If you want to be operated, an MRI, or some expensive procedure, waiting queue might be quite a bit long

Yes, in Moscow public medicine gets better every year. If you want to be operated, an MRI, or some expensive procedure, waiting queue might be quite a bit longer than that in commercial sector. Military-serving hospitals are particularly good. There are certain cases of narrow specialists, where commercial medicine is actually worse than that is found in high-prestige public institutions. I am speaking of Moscow and maybe few other big cities.