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Originally Posted by GGG
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.
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If you want to have a robust debate that’s all well and good but so far all you’ve done is pick an arbitrary number and stated that it’s acceptable based on the fact that it wasn’t a life or death situation. By that logic a 20 hour wait time would also be acceptable.
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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.
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The shortest possible wait times are what we should be aiming for, which I’d argue is not 10 hours. While a number of factors can impact wait times there’s certainly more that can be done to shorten them than just accepting the status quo and hoping that it’ll just get better.