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Canadian. The hospitals are overcrowded and can be a bit dirty, but the quality of care is good and the staff do their best. The biggest problem is wait times, which is typically many hours. No hospital bills, though. A previous Liberal government partially implemented universal pharmacare, but it's still only in its first phase and only applies to insulin and a few other things. I don't expect that it will progress past phase 1.
Universal healthcare is popular enough that they can't just abolish it, but right wing provincial governments (healthcare is administered at the provincial level) continually underfund and mismanage it with the hopes of replacing it with a private, for-profit system. The idea is to degrade the system enough to convince the population that fully public healthcare is untenable, and that private options are needed to take some of the load off of the public system. Then, with its replacement in place, the public system can be defunded at an accelerated rate and eventually fully privatized. This demonstrates that social democracy is untenable, and that a dictatorship of the proletariat is needed to protect the gains of the working class.
Having been in hospitals in at least 4 countries, 3 w/ national coverage, at least three across Canada - they are quite clean and well maintained in Canada.
I guess it depends on the hospital and how busy it is. Last one I was in had puke in the sink in the examination room.
That does sound pretty bad.
This is of course not a problem with universal healthcare in general, it just reflects the mismanagement and poor funding by the right wing provincial government and the general unravelling of society.