The Desirable Characteristics of Any Health Care System

First, a health care system should be consistent. That is the procedures for treatments, billing, etc. should be more or less the same. If there is very little consistency then you will have confusion.

Second, a health care system should be accurate. You want the surgeon to do an accurate job at surgery, you want your billings to be accurate, any diagnoses should be accurate as humanly possible. The scanners (CTs, MRIs, etc.) should be state of the art so any scanning will yield the best results. Under socialized medicine you may or may not get state of the art medical tools and medicine. I just read that the Secret Service is still using old computers from the 1980's. 

A health care system should also be timely. If you are sick you want your diagnoses and treatment (if any) to be quick as possible. Otherwise you could get sicker and die. Or you could just be in a lot of pain and want relief. In 2008 in Canada the wait times for neurosurgery is almost 32 weeks. Notice that is in weeks not days. That's a really long wait time.

Next a health care system should be economically feasible. In other words it should not make the country go into debt any further. Let's see you have to pay the salaries and training for the health care specialists. Not too mention there are drug and medical equipment costs too. It all adds up. ObamaCare will costs billions to implement. And with the country in debt, and the economy as it is, it will hurt the economy even more if Obama raises taxes on everyone. 

Finally, a health care system should be relevant.  

Actually, any man-made system should have these characteristics.