Saturday, July 28, 2007

This Canadian MD provides an inside look

....into the things he dealt with under Canada's socialized medicine, and why it's important that we not let it happen to us here in the U.S.

Key point:

"And if we measure a health care system by how well it serves its sick citizens, American medicine excels. Five-year cancer survival rates bear this out. For leukemia, the American survival rate is almost 50%; the European rate is just 35%. Esophageal carcinoma: 12% in the U.S., 6% in Europe. The survival rate for prostate cancer is 81.2% here, yet 61.7% in France and down to 44.3% in England — a striking variation."

Yet the Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" always tell us how "swell" this type of medical care will be when we get it here.

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