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Re: "... as long as the government is managing things reasonably."

Bingo!

The issue is, especially in Canada, which people don't seem to know is a "free" healthcare system structured fundamentally differently than the other more successful systems.

The primary issues I believe are rigid centralization - along with nepotism, and the single point of failure-capture that is then possible in a highly controlled-centralized system, where the people - the voters - get no say; e.g. when the health system doesn't have elected administrators.

In the US, I believe most states and cities, judges and police captains are elected? In Canada, we don't have that even.

There are pros and cons to "both" systems, and there are solutions to better select for the pros in both.