title: Wait times and national health policy.
abstract: Many arguments against US healthcare reform appeal to facts about wait times, and wait times are also discussed in debates about national health policy in other industrialised countries. This paper points out that there are several different ways to measure wait times. We currently measure them in one way, and this paper describes an alternative. The most reasonable assessments of US and international health reforms need to rely on the alternative method, and so when critics of health reform rely on the standard method, their arguments are unsound.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajczi
mesh_terms: D019049:Developed Countries; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States; D014850:Waiting Lists
keywords: Distributive Justice; Health Care Economics; Political Philosophy; Quality of Health Care; Resource Allocation