Third degree waiting time discrimination: optimal allocation of a public sector healthcare treatment under rationing by waiting
研究了在公共医疗系统中，对同一治疗的不同患者群体设置不同等待时间（三级等待时间歧视）如何提高社会福利，即使没有分配目标。
In many public healthcare systems treatments are rationed by waiting time. We examine the optimal allocation of a fixed supply of a given treatment between different groups of patients. Even in the absence of any distributional aims, welfare is increased by third degree waiting time discrimination: setting different waiting times for different groups waiting for the same treatment. Because waiting time imposes dead weight losses on patients, lower waiting times should be offered to groups with higher marginal waiting time costs and with less elastic demand for the treatment.