I have Kaiser for medical coverage, which is about the closest you'll get to socialized healthcare here in the US if you don't qualify for Medicare or the VA.

I have Kaiser for medical coverage, which is about the closest you'll get to socialized healthcare here in the US if you don't qualify for Medicare or the VA. I live in a populated area so we have a full doctor's office and hospital nearby, which is where my primary care doctor is. I never have trouble getting medical care. I don't always see the same specialist (in fact it's rare to see the same one for different cases) but I have no trouble seeing my primary doctor or getting his input. I think they've done two things to make it a lot easier to get care -- email and video appointments. I can email my doctor whenever, including pictures, and oftentimes he's able to prescribe some tests or meds right over email, and if he's not there, one of his colleagues will answer the email instead. They have a really good shared mailbox system. And if I need to talk to the doctor, I can get a video appointment. Those allow the doctor to see a lot more patients, because I just wait online until they're ready, we have our chat, and then they move on to the next person. They don't have to clean a room in between, they don't have to have a room for me to sit and wait in, they don't need a nurse to check me in, etc. My annual checkups are the doctor sending me an email asking if I have any issues to talk about, and ordering a bunch of tests. I go in for the tests, which is super efficient because it's a huge lab for the entire office and hospital and I don't need an appointment. Then he emails me back when the results are in to let me know if he needs to see me. Overall it's pretty efficient, in part because they've embraced technology, and in part because it's basically a team of doctors, with my primary care doc as the default but certainly not only person who can respond.