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Most women could go out in the woods to have their kid with no complications. Using pre natal, post natal health care is a common trick used by HMOs to show how good they are at simulating the forest.
Just read your own news papers, there is a victim every day, a victim that waited until they died for urgent health care in your countries. It just dosen't happen here at anywhere near the rate it does there. Here it is usually the patients own fault, not the health care system.
As to waiting times. If you have a bad knee or carpel tunnel you suffer, you have a hard time functioning, your life is downright miserable until the problem is fixed. I have had surgery for carpel tunnel, both hands, torn rotator cuffs (both of them), and a knee. Probably because I did Judo for over 35 years. Waiting time for each... 3 days for the carpel tunnel, 2 days for the knee, 2 weeks for the rotator cuffs. Waiting time for the initial appointment several hours to one day. I know thats good, but again we have the best care in the world here.
I have a condition called neuropathy. No treatments, no cures for it so far. (unless you consider being loaded up with tri cyclic antidepressants to the point of being a Zombie or otherwise zoned out with Neuronton) I have been to all the worlds leading Neurologists and volunteered for many studies. In the process I have met patients from all over the world. People that come to the US for the best, all paying cash. Every single country, including France.
We have a local hospital that treats many patients from the UK, even though they have private insurance there, they also treat every single nationality in the world. People who have money vote with their feet, they come to the US. People with a lot of money also seem to be the more intelligent people (makes sense, thats part of the reason they have a lot of money). Why reject "free" treatment, treatment you have already paid for in taxes, unless it is substandard?
Follow the money. Works for almost anything.
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