Where I live the conventional wisdom is Canada has better healthcare because it’s more affordable. However I recently spoke to someone who worked in both Canadian and US hospitals and she said US had had more technology and more of a desire to stay competitive and welcome new patients. In both Canada and the US there is health insurance some employers offer so it’s not free in either country.
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US thinks they have it better as huge profits in providers pockets allow to hire more professional doctors and buy better medical tech. What they don’t understand is that it is not better if majority of nation can’t access that best tech. Is it better that minority of a nation accesses best medical aid in the world or that almost the whole nation has access to acceptable and good medical aid? Only fraction of cases require best of the best to operate your brain or heart and in most cases majority of medical experts are good enough to operate and a nation benefits if healthcare is included in tax and has access to not best, but good enough medical aid.
Also, it’s baseless argument to criticise national medical system funded by taxes. If we say that for example in Europe medical aid is “free”, we mean that we don’t need to save and have liquid funds to go to the hospital as we are taxed anyway and we are thankful, that small portion of the tax pool is used to fund healtcare.
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