Faithful readers of this blog will be familiar with the long-standing debate about waiting times for medical treatment in public and private health care systems. Much of the debate consists in people trading anecdotes about how many weeks or months they or someone they heard of had to wait for medical care. After the most recent presidential debate, I think we have an anecdote about waiting times that will be really hard to top.
Ours is a health care system that makes people wait fifty years for surgery without which they cannot talk.
