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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
They lived so they can’t complain about the wait? Really?
The purpose of the emergency room isn’t only to treat life or death emergencies, it’s to treat people who need unexpected acute care. The goal is, or it should be, to deliver that care as quickly as possible. The standard doesn’t change because a facility is publicly funded, but if it did that would actually make a pretty good argument against private healthcare since the standard there is if you have the money you might get treatment faster than at a publicly funded facility but if you don’t have the money you’ll never get treatment.
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As a public system we should have a minimum level of care the state provides for people at no additional cost than taxation. We should be having a robust debate on where that point is. 10 hrs for non-life threatening urgent care after hours is a reasonable standard for government to provide.
And as you reply you should have considered what length of time you would like to wait and the level of taxation required to support your requirements in all areas of the health system.