In my country (Italy) is not so better. I live in one of the region (Tuscany) where the public health system works better, but since 2/3 years nothing seems to work ok. Just to know the private system here work very very fast and well, but, sure, the cost are high and so not all can take it. In the public system for some kind of examinations or visits we have to wait weeks or months (just for example to meet a public endocrinologist in my area I have to wait around 9-10 months and the cost is 22 euro while in the private system we can meet the endocrinologist in just one day for around 100-150 euro). For a simple blood tests is not bad because we have to wait just 2-5 days in the public system (and the ticket to pay is max 36 euro). The problem here in the last years is to have just few doctors who want to work for the public system (where doctors earn really less than in the private system, one of the lower salaries in Europe) and so, along the time, the public health system become so slowly and bad.