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Originally Posted by spence
Jim, as usual you're failing to see the point of his remark. Macdonald wasn't asserting the two were the same, his point was that the focus should be on the overall quality of care rather than dwell on a single metric. That doesn't mean that wait time isn't important, but it's a single component of a large system.
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And how good is the overall quality of a healthcare system, when people are dying because it takes thirty days or more to see a doctor? How does such a syatem get any grade other than 'F'?
I concede that wait times aren't the only measure of quality. But when wait times are literally killing our vets, most rational people would conclude that the overall quality of care is in shambles. By contrast, ride lines at Disney are not the most important aspect o fthe trip.
Maybe if I put it simply, you can get it...if you take your family to Disney and the lines are long, naturally you can still have a positive overall experience. If you have a combat-related brain injury and die before you get to see a doctor, I don't know that you'd be as capable of having a positive overall experience.
Fatal wait lines at a veterans healthcare facility, necessarily mean that things are a mess. Wait lines at an amusement park can be meaningless.
Am I going too fast? .