Boy, do I ever hear you on that. BC is one of the absolute worst provinces, but I understand Ontario is pretty bad as well. We are incredibly short of health care staff - we don't even have a clinic where I live and a huge number of people don't have a doctor, leading to more crowding in the emergency departments at our hosptials because people have no where else to go. Many times, a person knows what their situation is, isn't an emergency; but we have no other recourse.
I haven't seen my doctor since 2019 and yet, I'm waiting 6 weeks before I can get a phone call!!! When I was in emergency, they sent me home with a prescription and they don't even know what the issue is yet! Needless to say, I'm not taking the medication. I looked up the side effects and decided I wasn't going to take drugs.
BC gives out drugs freely, as you say, and our homeless problem is absolutely insane. Very dire situation for those of us who paid into a medical system our entire working lives and yet, we have no medical care.