Most Canadians can pay for private health care by driving just a couple of hours south, to the USA.
And that's one of the major arguments against public health care in the US: that the Canadian health care is so bad that Canadians have to come to the US to get MRIs.
No, it's simply that having the profit-driven USA system so close to us, means that our health care workers are naturally drawn south. Which makes our system more expensive to run (we have to overpay the ones that remain), and difficult to staff (making for longer queues, which is what drives some patients south).
If we had some ocean (and VISAs) between us and the USA, like the UK does, then the effect would be greatly lessened, and the public system here would likely work as it was designed. Just like in the UK and other modern countries.
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