The Canadian health care system is even more left-leaning than the currently already-leftist New Zealand system. We have a dual system for elective surgeries (a parallel private health care exists alongside public health system on this side) and as I understand it there is no such thing in Canada.
If you have health insurance, you can literally have the elective surgery done tomorrow, and if you don't, the government still provides the surgery for free, but you will have to queue. I know the CBC did a special feature on the NZ system a few years ago and they seem so outraged at the "right-wingedness" of our current system.
Ping!
,,, for all the Americans - "queue" means wait in line. Tommy Douglas would turn in his grave, I'm sure.