Wait Times
Know this, based on what you will read at the links below:
Control of wait times BEFORE and AFTER the implementation of our health-care-for-all system requires good queue management of resources to have good wait times with the same or fewer resources.
Improvement Needed in U.S.. The United States has definite need for improvement regarding wait times, as seen in the articles below.
Subject Independent of Single-Payer Wait times is a subject independent of the topic of the
United States going to single-payer. Many people, especially those people in engineering
and scientific disciplines, can appreciate that wait times
are an opportunity for properly managing resources that can lead to better performance at
the same or lower cost.
- Study: Longer Wait Times for Emergency Rooms by Joanne Silberner – NPR Morning Edition 1-15-2008
- “A new study describes a disturbing trend in hospital emergency rooms: longer wait times even for very sick people. That finding follows a recent report from the Institute of Medicine that described emergency rooms as being at the breaking point.”
- The Doc’s In, but It’ll Be a While – Business Week 6-22-07
- On Health Care Reform: Long Waits are really SiCKO – PNHP1 7-10-07
- Waiting Times for Care? Try Looking at the U.S. – PNHP 7-05-07
- Sub-title: Nurses, Doctors Say It’s Time to Debunk the Myths
- Sub-title: Even Aetna Admits U.S. System ‘Is Not Timely’
- Do we need private solutions to control queues? – PNHP 1-13-06
- Hint from Bob: The answer is a clear “no!” Read this article and the others above it!
- Further reading: at www.google.com do a search for this:
- “wait times” site:www.pnhp.org
- One of the results you will get is “Queue Management in U.S. Emergency Departments” about how queue management was applied in a California medical center to slash “emergency room waiting times from an average of four to six hours to one to two hours in just two months …”
AFTER the implementation of Improved Medicare for All the majority of Americans will have the peace of mind of knowing that a priority system will have people with the greatest need get their health care first. Then the United States will save lives from the pain, suffering and deaths of preventable diseases … like other top performing countries have done successfully for years.
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