IMO this is the missing gap in a lot of the US economy. Cars, housing, medical care. Kei trucks, SRO apartments, and so many more similar solutions are functionally illegal.

Blaming United or whatever is memeworthy, but it’s also the easy and only partially correct answer.

It's easy to have lower wait times when you don't have to serve everyone.

Conservative politicians in both of the countries you mentioned have been systematically, over the course of decades, been defunding their own government-run healthcare programs, specifically in the hopes that people like you will conclude that because of this the system is "broken" and that we must as a result switch to the private, profitable healthcare that said politicians are being paid to support.

If you want to talk about properly funded public healthcare, there are plenty of good examples in the EU to look at.

That's still a capitalism problem.

Neoliberal scum politicians (regardless of party) will underfund, sabotage and dismantle piece by piece, previously working fine government-run healthcare (and other infrastructure) to the benefit of private health interests.

Besides "people die waiting for care in Canada" is only a valid argument if more people don't die NOT waiting for care because they can afford it in the US.

Comparing the wait times of a system catering to everybody vs a system that excludes from even considering care a huge chunk of the population is cheating - even if we ignore the underfunding and neoliberal reforms issue.

That all happens in the US too—and worse—but also we pay more and get worse health care.

At this point, it should be pretty clear that privatization of healthcare just doesn't work that well in general.