Yes, there are queues and waiting times in our socialized healthcare here in the Netherlands. One problem is the lack of staff. Also more and more older people

Yes, there are queues and waiting times in our socialized healthcare here in the Netherlands. One problem is the lack of staff. Also more and more older people getting older than before. Another is the lack of funding due to the government trying to privatize as much as they can get away with (like health insurance), which loops back into the first problem. However, my wife needed medication that was 10000 EUR per dose, which was fully covered by our socialized healthcare insurance. For most things related to health at the most I need to pay a total of 385 EUR per year out of pocket, next to the insurance premium which is about 130 a month. When those 385 EUR is gone for the year, I don't need to pay anything at all. People who can't afford the insurance premium get money from the government to cover that, and if that is not enough and you still can't pay your insurance, you are still eligible for any health care you need and a service will cover for you until you can pay again. There are waiting lists for many things, yes, but mostly for non-urgent, non-lifethreatening things. If you need something done, it can be done. And you won't be thrown into debt to pay for it.