When will Maryland get serious about reducing ER wait times? | STAFF COMMENTARY

At the urging of state lawmakers, the Maryland Hospital Association last summer formed a 28-member workgroup to determine the root causes of Maryland’s appallingly long emergency room wait times. The report was due at the start of the Maryland General Assembly’s annual 90-day session. It did not arrive until mid-March, when it’s far too late for legislators to take up any serious remedies.

If there is a better metaphor for Maryland’s abysmal ER wait times — which hover around 4 hours and 7 minutes from arrival to departure...