New medical equipment shortens waiting rows?

• Every time health minister or director of medical facilities ceremonially puts new medical equipment into use there are always big words of how this will reduce waiting rows for at least three months.
• Funny words, really. Because they say that for last five years patients had to wait for treatment for a year (hearth surgery, cancer treatment...). In other words they will wait for only 10 months from now on.
• Which is illogical, because if the flow of patients is relatively constant (rows data for the last five years...) and you increase the "production" capacities (from 4 machines to 5), the waiting rows should diminish in time.
• But they usually don't because of other deciding factors like doctors willingness to work (use the new tools) and the amount of money used for this kind of treatment (these two are very much correlated).
• On the bright side...patients do usually get better treatment (on new devices). But the bottom line is that in the end it is all about money and how much we are willing to give it to others.
• I will go out and say that only 2% of people actually think about this topic in this way...and most of them are probably making nice profits selling medical equipment to the state.