Do you have Public Health System in your Country? Do you like it? Or would prefer it to be private? (NHS related)

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Since I couldn't test Philippines yet on this, I can just tell about Luxembourg where I lived until 5 months ago.

Never had any problem reaching a doctor. Emergency in hospitals tends to be (over-)crowded, but you generally go to your family doctor first and you don't even need an appointment here if you go there in the morning (mornings are open, afternoons just on appointment and you can make a house call in the evenings, though that's pretty expensive, hence why outside working hours patients go to the hospitals. If I had to wait for long, then it's just because it was a busy day with many visitors, but I never had to wait more than 2 hours (I define more than an hour as long here).

Luxembourg has a Public Health System, though you can opt out if you prefer (NOT RECOMMENDED!) and there are some additional private health companies to give you (even) better options.

One thing that's special to our PHS is that you still have to pay full price at doctor's visits (though that price is set) and only get 80% back afterwards; on medicine you pay 100-20% of the original price depending on what it is (antibiotics 20%, symptom relievers 60-80%, painkillers 40-60%, vitamins and food supplements 100%). Stationary hospital visits and test requiring you to visit a hospital are generally fully covered