Ugh, I hear this from people in Canada too. I'm in the US, and given the decades long experiences with shoulder shrugs from medical experts around chronic health issues for myself and others, this comment really frustrates me. It is absolutely not superior. In fact I would argue that if the person in the article approached the same thing here, they'd never get the treatment they got through the NHS.

It took 5 years for my wife to get tested for rheumatoid arthritis (which she was finally diagnosed with after tests and exams proved it), and that's only because I kept insisting. The doctors here will easily hand wave any sort of complicated chronic illness. Mayo clinic - one of the top medical institutions in America - gave up on my dad's neurological illness. He was very active 3 years ago, today he is in a wheelchair. Diagnosis? Who knows, it's too complicated, they're not interested anymore.