In some ways it does suck. The free part is excellent, but the waiting lists get ridiculous.

My sister has been on a waiting list to get her tonsils removed for about 2 years now, and it could be atleast another year before it happens. The doctor says that the only way it'll happen sooner is if she gets on the urgent list. As it stands, every time she gets a cold she ends up in the emergency room because her tonsils swell up to the point that she can only breathe with extreme difficulty.
If that's not urgent I don't want to know what is.

And similar things happen all the time, lots of common surgeries and specialty doctors have ridiculous waiting lists.
I will admit that this could possibly be where in Canada I'm from, and it might be much better if you move to major population centers, but that's my experience with out health care system.