The good news is that Canadian health care is universal.  The bad news is that it is universally mediocre.  It is inwardly-focused, overly bureaucratic, and excessively oriented toward the convenience of health care providers instead of patients.  

It is, in every sense of the term, socialized medicine.  In order that nobody be perceived as enjoying preferential treatment, we'd rather have everyone experience mediocre service.   Mediocre, but equal.   

I read last week on these comment pages the observation that Americans have an irrational fixation on their guns while Canadians have our irrational fixation on public-only health care.  God forbid anyone touch the 3rd rail in proposing the inclusion of privately-delivered health care.