I lived in canada for 35 years. The health care system there provide emergency services to all Canadians. However, if you want elective surgery, you have to wait for it, sometimes for years.
So if you have a car accident, your life will be saved. But if you want the leg fixed that was injured in the car accident, so you can walk on it again, you will have to join a waiting list. And you can wait for 2 or 3 years. Then all the relatives of doctors and surgeons, don't wait. They get inter provincial referrals to med school buddies , and the waiting list is circumvented by the privileged few. Thats how a socialist system works.
Universal Health Care is not universal, and anyone who thinks it can be is a flaming idiot.
Americans would never be able to live with such a system.
Toronto Globe and Mail said that a cardiac patient is ten times more likely to die waiting than on an operating table.
One of my best friends was skiing in Ottawa when he got stabbing pains in his lower abdomen. He went to the ER and was told he could either be operated there for an emergency appendectomy or wait until he got back to the states. He chose the latter. When in Vermont they opened him up to find a pink, healthy appendix. However, there was a strong smell of stool. The doctor, who was at the time the VP of the AMA treated the bowel perforation before peritonitis set in. He told my friend that if he had stayed in Canada they would have closed him up at finding the healthy appendix and sent him back for rediagnosis and most likely would have died waiting.