It's worse than that--once a diagnosis is made, a person may have to wait months or years to have anything done about it under socialist systems.
Is that so bad?
Seems to me many or most cancer patients let doctors cut off pieces and/or inject them with poisons and/or radiate them, and for what?
They end up dying in a few painful years anyway.
Might as well let nature take its course from the get-go.