It's industry and business who open their wallets. In every developed country in the West except ours (and Cuba) workers negotiate private health care as part of their benefits package. It allows workers to get their health care quickly and results in less workdays lost to sickness, and lowers the waiting list for everyone else.  Seniors are less likely to fall and fracture their hips - further increasing the cost of health care - while they are on a waiting list for  knee replacement. 
But the left just labels it as "Two-tier health care" and shuts down debate.  Nothing is allowed to  challenge the liberal dogma.