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Brickbat: The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

Charles Oliver | 7.19.2018 4:00 AM


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The British National Health Service reports some 4.3 million patients, a 10-year high, are waiting on surgery. They are supposed to have to wait no more than 18 weeks for non-urgent surgery, but 211,434 patients have been waiting more than six months.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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