Pseudo single-payer VA continues to misconstrue waiting times:
A report released Monday said auditors found VA was understating waiting times by excluding some patients from the count and by claiming that some appointments were late because that was when veterans wanted to be seen, although there was no evidence in the patient files to verify such a claim.Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman, called the report “disturbing” and described it as proof that “VA continues to skew its outpatient reports.”
There are studies that suggest that the VA have better outcomes. Can they also be trusted?
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There have been complaints in NHS hospitals about waiting times from ER to admission. As in, patients lying on a trolley (gurney) for days, waiting for an inpatient bed.
There have been reports of NHS managers taking the wheels off the trolley. This gets it redefined as a “bed” and the patient is now “admitted”. Waiting time now made to look shorter on paper.
So no, I’m not surprised VA managers play their own administrative games with waiting times.
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