I don't really see the point in continuing this: you've already made up your mind about the validity of public vs. private health care. If any claims are made without numbers, you will demand numbers; when numbers are provided, you will claim they are gamed, skewed, or otherwise misinterpreted.<p>The relevant information is there - and from my experiences and wait time in the ER yesterday I cannot say I'm terribly impressed by the availability of your medical system. It wasn't a particularly busy night, but wait times were about equal to what I'd expect in Canada.<p>I've met many other expats from nationalized-healthcare countries who have lived in the US (some for well over a decade), and I've yet to meet a single one that doesn't regard America's health care system as some kind of barbarism.