KMAN, you might be interested in the following:

http://www.scp.nl/publicaties/boeken...formance_3.PDF

pages 120-180... a detailed, intelligent, analysis/discussion of
healthcare systems.

One excerpt of note:
"The optimum outcome of this trade-off for non-urgent curative care
will be a
waiting time somewhere between zero and a few months. Research has
shown that
short waiting times for this type of care cause very little
deterioration in health,
while the costs of care increase sharply if such treatments have to be
performed
without waiting time. Furthermore, it appears that patients do not
strongly object
to waiting a short time for non-urgent treatment (scp 2003: 123).
However, waiting
times are still regarded as unpleasant and spark public debate."

Anyway, KMAN, thought this might be of interest.

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