Bending that cost curve down: MVNHS©-style

Hard to beat this:

Well yes. A study of cataract surgery in the UK showed that delaying surgery at least a year resulted in many patients dying, becoming too sick or forgetting about it so the numbers of actual procedures were reduced. It is a form of self-rationing then allows access to others.

— kokomored (@kokomored1) August 22, 2019

 

The study found that patients "with poor eyesight are being forced to wait almost six months for operations ... Lengthening delays and the growing demand for cataract operations are forcing the NHS to send increasing numbers of patients to be treated privately."

But I thought the Much Vaunted National Health Service© was the 'ne plus ultra ' of government run health "care."

Hunh.