Does it have its problems? Yes. Do Canadians think that American healthcare is a better system? Actions indicate: No.
How do I know? 90% of Canadians live close enough to the border to hop over and visit a doctor and be home in the same day. That's incredibly rare to do.
The few Canadians I've met who think its better in the US have either never dealt with the US system, or have only dealt with it in terms of very high end plans provided by an employer.
As someone who has lived in both countries, and dealt with US healthcare (ACA, and pre-ACA). I never want to deal with US healthcare again. Last time I lived in the states my premiums were ~7% of my take home pay. That's a massive "tax" to pay, and that's before you actually see a doctor.
So yeah. Canada had issues with care homes during Covid, but the correct point of comparison isn't top-notch private care homes in the US (A majority of Canadian care-homes are private anyway, so we have the same high end thing here). It is to compare the free public care homes in Canada with people dying at home in the US because they can't afford any care at all.
I know there were a lot of problems in the Canadian system caused by or exposed by Covid, but weren't the worst of them private companies in some sort of private-public deal not, as your wording suggests, the government running them?
I may be misremembering. Somewhat like the US state-to-state variability, province-to-province is quite different also I suspect.
Thanks, I've never seen intricacies of Canadian health care system explained quite as clearly and succinctly as this. :)
I can't help but think of that complete set of Beatles transcriptions where the orchestral build-up in "A Day in the Life" is a single staff titled "Orchestra" with a rising line drawn on it.