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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by TuringTest on Monday June 12, 2017 @09:40AM (#14537259)
Not if all urgent healthcare is delivered to all in a timely manner, and it's only non-urgent healthcare which gets delays.

In this case, the system which can get urgent attendance to all users wins over the one which does it only for a subset, even in terms of timeliness.

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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by JoeAltmaier on Monday June 12, 2017 @09:54AM (#14537367)
Urgent care is a fair metric.

A system than turns non-urgent care (a cold or the flu) into urgent care (pneumonia) is going to 'stuff the ballot box' in its favor however.

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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by TuringTest on Monday June 12, 2017 @10:26AM (#14537611)
If you were to live the rest of your life with a new healthcare system, which of the following would you prefer?

- a) one where you would be randomly assigned to one of two groups: one which gets timely attendance for urgent and non-urgent needs; and the other one which gets no attendance at all, of any kind.

- b) one where all users get attended with an equal 3 weeks delay for non-urgent needs, and 0 delay for urgent needs.

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