Asklemmy

It's declined a lot, in the 90s it was considered some of the best in the world, it's far off from that now, so you'll hear a lot of complaining in canadian only spaces, but you'll find very very few canadians would take the American system over ours. Anything american media says about canadian Healthcare being bad is almost always untrue.

There is some political drama playing out. The pandemic obviously stressed the system, the (liberal) federal government (who primarily funds healthcare) wanted to give the (largely conservative) provincial governments money for Healthcare, but the provinces have been dragging their feet accepting money that can be only spent on Healthcare. Here in Ontario our premier is making obvious moves to make our Healthcare more private (while largely denying it), something largely unpopular but could be very profitable to particular people.

In my personal experience I have no complaints. I needed a urologist for some non urgent issues and that took 4months. But as a kid I hit my head and (it turns out coincidentally) started getting really severe headaches a few weeks later, I got seen by a neurologist within a day or saying I had a problem. In 2020 I broke my leg and was in and out of the hospital in less than an hour despite covid, had several follow uos without waits either.