The best that ANYONE can do concerning their own healthcare is to improve on it. We are of the opinion that as good as the WHO says Canadian healthcare is, it can always be better. It's become apparent to me that if we want the same quality of healthcare as other Canadians, we should move to a major center where the hospitals are pampered by gov't, and leave the outlying areas with their first aid stations. We won't. We are pretty healthy. But we can't say the same for other people in rural areas who DO need decent healthcare and can't get it.
Whether people like it or not, we do have a multitiered healthcare system.
I think this is based largely on logistics.
You have people who will travel hours to shop in the cities because there is not as much selection in their town. Which of course puts pressure on the town to downsize its shopping industry. The same happens with cities. People flock there for services and they wind up with more of it than corresponds to their population base.
This is ignoring things like specialisation, which simply cannot survive in a small town.
As a computational physicist, I will never be able to find a career in my home town. Sad, but true.