This sounds like a carbon copy of the UK in all honesty. I am for private healthcare I don't think someone should be bankrupt because of a broken arm for example. But we have a similar mixture where if you splash some cash you can decrease your waiting time. Otherwise yeah you're looking at somewhere close to 6 months for an MRI here aswell. I can't say I have any modicum of a solution, but I don't think fully privatising things such as healthcare is in the best interests of the population.

Public education for example is contentious for me. Why am I funding a system I don't use? I don't have kids so why am I paying for someone else's to be indoctrinated into some overly leftist agenda posing as education?