I live in Ottawa, Ontario and so far I have no complaints other than long wait times and lack of doctors. I have no family doc now b/c mine retired.

I see my pdoc every week for therapy and meds. When I had my breast lump scare I got referred to a surgeon. It took a while, a long time, but I finally got it biopsied, even though they said it was benign. I was worried and they alleviated my worry.

Dental and vision and prescriptions aren't covered though.

Back in California when I was a kid, we didn't have insurance or welfare. My parents worked minimum wage jobs. Some of the docs were nice though, gave us lots of free samples. If I lived in the States I would never be able to see my psychiatrist every week. I'm not sure what would happen to me.

I feel safer knowing if anything bad happened to me I wouldn't be financially ruined. My cousin had to have emergency surgery, it would have cost thousands in the states. Here it is free (thought we have high taxes).