Canada's Health Care System

We as humans tend to take many things for granted especially when we're provided with numerous benefits. In Canada, many of us don't realize the simple and easy access we have to education which is free up until high school that is to say public schools. Some people who choose to be lazy and try to accumulate welfare money are people who have no idea how lucky they are to be in a country like Canada where there is easy access to many things and Canada's Health Care system is definitely one of them. We as Canadians have the opportunity to have free check-ups by our family doctors we don't need to pay. Whereas, other countries lack free health care systems and people need to pay so much just to be checked by the doctor. Now of course one would need to have a health card issued by the Provincial Ministry of Health in order to receive the proper care for one's health.
However, there are abundant benefits that are provided in our Canadian Health Care system. To start off, we have our seniors who are provided with their medications that are generally covered by public funds or even through employment-based private insurance. I've usually heard from friends about how horrible old age homes are and how the seniors there are not treated so well. "The environment there is rather equivalent to one suffocating himself or herself...I'd rather die than be handed down over to the care of old age homes where they make your life so miserable!..." said a friend of mine when discussing this issue since she had volunteered at an old age home. I can definitely, at least from my standpoint, see the lack of good care Canada provides for its seniors. On second thought, the conditions may be even worse for our seniors if it weren't for our free health care system which at least provides them with medicines to cure their illnesses and live a longer quality of life.
Moreover, the quality of care is taken care of through federal standards and for that we needn't worry much. Take patients who need to seek family physicians for example. First of all, patients have the opportunity to choose their family physician and can also ask for referrals if they need to see a specialist or are counseled to see a specialist. Furthermore, yearly check-ups are actually encouraged by doctors because early detection can extend ones life expectancy and quality of life. Both these case scenarios also share a common advantage which is that referrals and yearly check-ups can cut down overall costs.
So overall, provided with the general picture of Canada's Health Care system, I feel that I'm way better off living in a country like Canada where we don't need to pay for our health. I hear about cases in which people literally die because they can't afford to get a surgery done that can save their life from death. But due to the extremely expensive health care system they live in, they can't be taken well care of in regards to their health just because the doctors in such third world countries demand a high price for them to be cured.