Edited sentence: Even when someone does get to see a medical professional, the quality of care that the medical professional is able to provide is lower, as evidenced by the poor quality of care provided by in countries that have adopted universal health care, such as Canada and the United Kingdom.For example, in countries that have socialized medicine, people often must be on a waiting list for years before they can see a doctor.Socialized medicine can lead to shortages, which sometimes forces governments to decrease the availability of health care through rationing.These conclusions, however, are highly unreliable as their source is the openly-biased US conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation.This unnecessarily prolongs suffering, and can lead to preventable deaths