While Canada's publicly funded healthcare system guarantees universal access to essential physician and hospital services without direct out-of-pocket point-of-care user fees, it faces significant structural challenges. The primary downsides include excessively long waiting lists for elective surgeries and specialist consultations, overcrowded emergency departments, physician shortages, and limited public coverage for prescription drugs, dental care, mental health counseling, and optometry.
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