I haven't been to much at hospitals or with doctors, to be honest as I'm remarkably healthy for some reason But I can see the benefits of free healthcare in that you don't have to pay (except the tax ofcourse) in order to receive treatment. The hospitals here in Norway are pretty good on the whole, but they do in fact suffer from the problem that in the recent years more bureaucrats than nurses (especially nurses, who often have to work overtime) and doctors have been employed, and yes lines can get pretty long. I can't give much firsthand accounts, I've only been to a hospital a few times and it went well and my parents didn't have to pay (I was 5 one time and 8 the other time), and I don't talk to people about it that often either. Anyway despite long lines and, in some cases and countries, ridiculous bureacracy I don't feel that abandoning public healthcare in favor of private hospitals where you can get help fast, if you can pay, is a solution the majority can benefit from, rather more money should be used to improve the public hospitals. The taxes needed to support this are ofcourse not low, they support other things as well such as various welfare services, schools, roads and stuff, but still there aint really a whole lot of people who are suffering because of it, most poor people are affected more by a poorly paid job or no job at all than they are by taxes.

Not that much and probably doesen't give that much information, but its my opinion, or at least parts of it.