[nine_k]

Rationing also makes some outcomes summarily worse.

If you have a relatively minor problem, you're put in a line. For months (or years) of waiting, your problem becomes worse, and when you finally get to be treated, the treatment is much costlier and less effective.

This is to say nothing about your actual suffering from the problem, and from knowing that it's deliberately not being treated.

[thatoneuser]

Joint replacement waiting a few months likely won't cause that much harm. I mean it can but it's statistical probably justified. And in fact it's guaranteed that these systems are trying to balance that.