“Free healthcare “

“Free healthcare “

So 10000 a year? And this(people on waitlists) is a population that is definitely more likely than most to have a life threatening health event at any given moment. These stats are meant to be alarming but what are they comparing agaisnt and how are they arriving at ‘likely double’. This is just bad reporting with heavy bias
Now I understand why it's so popular with socialists.
My guess is that they had deliberately downgraded the system, to make it more capitalist friendly, so to force the patients to seek solution to the private sector. A well known recipe...
I'll give you two more guesses, and the second guess doesn't count.
No other guess. That is it.
This is 8 years old, so it's undoubtedly much higher now.

there’re not doing it right
Wow! But...
What percentage is it of the people on the wait list?
How does it compare to other systems like in the US, Sweden etc?
There is simply not enough information to make a judgment.