respectful then kindly stop engaging me, thanks.

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>"I would" is not the same thing as "this is the most desirable
>possible outcome at all times"
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I never insinuated he was stating a 10 hour ER wait time is the most ideal outcome of all time, come on. Quite the opposite. He said he'd be willing to wait 10 hours to receive care in an ER, and it's not at all unreasonable to contemplate - based on his comparison - an average Emergency Department Wait Time (an actual metric used in Health Services Research, btw) of that length to illustrate just how poorly that level of service would scale if it was what one could expect in the US. Especially comparing to a country the size of Canada, in which - last I checked - the entire population would have to visit an ER 3x in a year to match the volume of traffic US ERs receive.