New Zealand also suffers from this silent problem. Nobody notices. People dying from being sick or old is so normal, and it's impossible to see that many of these people could have lived much longer if the medical system worked better.... but you can reason it out.

I don't have a major problem with pooling our money (taxes) in order to socialize the cost of medical care. I don't want to force that on others, so doing it by government fiat is IMHO the wrong idea... but it is not my biggest gripe. My biggest problem is that we have a lack of competition, of incentives, and medical staff don't get paid much by the government. So we get sub-par people who keep making the same money and are at no risk of losing their jobs despite how poorly they execute their duties.... a recipe for worse and worse medical care.

That being said, often times you get lucky... you get a good doctor or good nurse who is very qualified and does an excellent job, despite the incentives.

Also in NZ most well off people have private medical insurance and use private providers when they can (but still have to pay taxes to subsidize the stuff they don't use).

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