The Oreo people could have put them in line based on when they started traveling. That would have been fair.
But they didn’t. They decided to let people cut the queue based on how far away they live.
Here’s the problem: Some people live further away but right next to a high speed rail station. Other people live close but have to take a massive detour to cross a river.
Ok, I see there are some reading comprehension problems when it comes to metaphors. The distance I am talking about isn’t literally distance. It is about how good their access to healthcare in general is. Maori is statistically proven to have worse outcomes when they are ill. They have to wait longer, gets their symptoms underestimated, get worse aftercare and ultimately die more often than other ethnicities with the exact same diagnosis. What they did was that they added a boost in priority that means that Maori that would normally wait a year for surgery now have to wait 10 months because we know that there is a bunch of shit that isn’t medical that added those 2 months to begin with. The reason they chose to do it this way is because they tried it locally first and found that Maori suddenly got the same stats as everyone else when they did it.
The Oreo people could have put them in line based on when they started traveling. That would have been fair.
But they didn’t. They decided to let people cut the queue based on how far away they live.
Here’s the problem: Some people live further away but right next to a high speed rail station. Other people live close but have to take a massive detour to cross a river.
Ok, I see there are some reading comprehension problems when it comes to metaphors. The distance I am talking about isn’t literally distance. It is about how good their access to healthcare in general is. Maori is statistically proven to have worse outcomes when they are ill. They have to wait longer, gets their symptoms underestimated, get worse aftercare and ultimately die more often than other ethnicities with the exact same diagnosis. What they did was that they added a boost in priority that means that Maori that would normally wait a year for surgery now have to wait 10 months because we know that there is a bunch of shit that isn’t medical that added those 2 months to begin with. The reason they chose to do it this way is because they tried it locally first and found that Maori suddenly got the same stats as everyone else when they did it.