Patients in Britain were waiting for hours on end inside the government's emergency rooms, so the Labor government decreed that no one should have to wait more than four(!) hours for treatment without, of course, seeing to it that there were sufficient personnel to implement that decree. The solution: Keep patients in ambulances for hours so that the four-hour clock doesn't start until the ER staff is sure they can beat it. One attempt to repeal the laws of economics begets another, which begets another, etc. (Link via Strike the Root.)
