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I'm from Argentina, and we have Public Hospitals 100% free. Either way, I pay for a private medicine plan, it's better to avoid long waits (not that much, though, either it's free or paid, you gotta wait anyway). However, other than luxury rooms and stuff, public medicine is WAY better than private, ie I take my daughters to public hospitals for a better attention and diagnosis, and if needed they go to a private clinic but only AFTER they've been diagnosed at a public hospital.
Either way, the best public medicine I know of is Cuba's public medicine system. My uncle has cancer and he had a medulla replacement for 1/4 of what it would have cost here. Of course, he had to pay since he's not Cuban, but he told me people there had exactly the same treatment for free. And I know quite a bunch of people who goes from here to Cuba for expensive or really difficult treatment, it's quite common here. As a matter of fact, Argentina made a deal with Cuba for 1000 or so doctors to come here to work and train local doctors, especially in remote locations.
Another places I was told are really good on this matter are Israel, Denmark, Sweden and Venezuela. Personally, I think Argentina's health system is quite good, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil health system sucks ball (from my personal experience, even tho as a foreigner to those countries maybe we just had bad luck). btw, didn't see that movie, so no idea what it says
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