Who cares if you have to wait 3 days or 3 months? What matters is outcomes. If you wait three months, are properly treated and have a good outcome, that is a he

Who cares if you have to wait 3 days or 3 months? What matters is outcomes. If you wait three months, are properly treated and have a good outcome, that is a healthcare success. If you wait 3 days, go deep in to debt, and get the exact same outcome, how is that better? Obviously, people are not dying as they wait for their appointments throughout Europe. Otherwise their health metrics would not be so consistently better than in the US. Maybe focusing on wait times is not the right way to look at the issue.