Asklemmy

One thing to bear in mind is that while federal funding is involved, every province manages its own healthcare system. As such, you can expect some variation depending on where you live.

I live in Ontario, as do most of my family members. My experience is that hospital care here has been top notch. I have never had a situation in which I felt myself or a family member was not getting everything they needed during a medical crisis.

It is more in everyday care situations where the system has some issues. The pandemic had a knack for revealing healthcare problems with laser focus wherever you were in the world. Here, it was in nursing homes where we saw super-spreading events. My mom's building alone saw 9 deaths in a single month. It's not really surprising. Our current conservative premier took it upon himself to find "efficiencies" in long-term care at the beginning of his term.

Where I live, there has also been a chronic family physician shortage. I know people who have been on the waiting list for over 5 years at this point. They can always go into walk-in clinic or the hospital out-patient centre, but still... I think there is a problem with medium-sized cities in Ontario that they are a bit too large to qualify as under-serviced communities and get more help from the province? They figure that since the city has a couple of major hospitals, it can't be under-serviced.