<p>We don't want to be like other countries in terms of our medical system, so comparing us to them is not convincing. People over 65 are routinely denied basic operations, so they will come to our country, check into a hotel near a hospital here, stop taking their meds, and show up at the hospital, because their national health does cover such routine operations while abroad.
If you think the wait time to see specialists is bad here, then go to Canada or Scandinavia and try to schedule an angioplasty. You'll be dead before they can fit you in.</p>