Many countries with universal healthcare do run into trouble with finite resources.Aaron said:I'm not sure what you mean. If insured patients aren't being treated in a timely manner, it has less to do with coverage and more to do with not having sufficient facilities and doctors to see to their needs. It's also a problem that's greatly worsened if they wait on an illness to be treated at ER and end up clogging that system, depriving care from people who truly are in an emergency situation.
There are a number of issues with healthcare in this country, and universal system is hardly a fix all, but it's a step in the right direction.
Universal Healthcare doesn't increase healthcare supply very much, so there tends to be the horror story of "3 month waitlists for MRI, not enough beds in hospitals, families, politicians, etc travel to America for operation etc etc"
Not to say our system is perfect, they both have their interesting flaws.