[the_Watchman]

Here's a gem from the report:

From a policy perspective, the good news is that waiting time in our sample is not associated with SES. Instead, patient age, sex and severity – which can be considered proxies for need – are associated with wait times, providing evidence that there is equity in waiting times in our sample.

The good news is that even though wait times are abysmal, there is EQUALITY! Everybody gets the same poor results.

[null and void]

patient age, sex and severity – which can be considered proxies for need

The good news is we have a policy to discriminate based on age and gender.

[ErnBatavia]

We live in an area swarmed by Canadian snowbirds each winter.....you can't get anywhere near the parking lots of the many medical office buildings here during "season", but if you get close you'd swear you were in BC or Alberta judging by the license plates.

It's believed there are more MRI machines in our Coachella Valley than in all of Canada.

[pluvmantelo]

For those of you who, like me, are slow SES stands for socioeconomic status. (Had to look it up on Wikipedia).