[cmrdporcupine]

All doctor's offices in Canada are in fact private businesses. It's not actually a fully socialized system.

It's just there's a single payer. Those businesses bill the provincial government instead of you. Most of the dysfunctions in the Canadian system come down to provinces screw around with billing and payment and funding.

Take your dissatisfaction with the way the government manages payments to the voting booth instead of advocating dismantling what is on the whole a quite equitable system that has a history of actually producing very good health outcomes.

I actually have on the whole extremely pleasant experiences here in my corner of Ontario. And then I hear horror stories.

The system is underfunded and inconsistent. The province is to blame for that.

[petesergeant]

> a history of actually producing very good health outcomes

It may outperform the US, but it doesn't outperform normal countries.

[AlexandrB]

> Take your dissatisfaction with the way the government manages payments to the voting booth

And vote for who? I have yet to hear a compelling solution from any party. At most, politicians advocate for throwing more money at the problem.

> The system is underfunded

Hot take: the system will always be underfunded. The demand for healthcare is nearly infinite in practice. What stops people from going to the doctor for every sniffle is either cost (in a private system) or waiting times (in a public system). If you had infinite resources to offer services, there are some folks who would be going in for MRIs every year "just in case" and getting prescriptions for every flu they have.