Health costs are going up the world over, if you were sick you'd truly appreciate the advances, but they come at a cost.
If you think that the system used to be better, you are simply wrong, no other way to put it HAakon. And it's got nothing to do with public versus private, that's a political discusssion.
For a small microcosm if a typical change in health, is most posters here probably broke and arm or leg when they were young - they just set it in emergency, plastered you up and sent you away. Now, most of those fractures would involve surgery and fixation with metal bits - that costs money, but it also means better proveable health outcomes. Less disability, less recuperation etc. cancers are an area now where hundreds of thousands of dollars are thrown at curing or extending a single patients life when 20 years ago, it was , I'm sorry, you have 6 months.
Edit - I'll give you that some parts are worse due to cost cutting, but generally it's the nice to haves that are axed first while life saving stuff continues on.
ED's are the most popular with tabloids, not because they have become underfunded, but because they are full of people with children with a cough, or numpty mountain bikers who need a stitch but won't go to a GP and pay for it.