Dr. Marita O'Brien:

Exactly. If people do not have budgets, that can delay discharge from hospital. People in some parts of the country are not put on the list until that point. As a result, the waiting lists really do not reflect people's needs. Someone at the sixth or seventh point on the scale is recorded as waiting. A hospital patient who needs some adaptation will not get it in time, so he or she will go to a nursing home. Those kinds of issues can arise.