Hoover Digest
By Scott W. Atlas
Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers, and academics beat the drum for a far larger government role in health care. Much of the public assumes that their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. Before we turn to government as the solution, however, we should consider some unheralded facts about America’s health care system.
1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.
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Did you hear about the incident where a republican went to a demonstration to oppose health care reform and caught in a fight and injured then complaining that he doesn't have health insurance.
What a stupid world we are living in?
Think one second before support anything because you don't know what is going to happen to you
This is America where everyone gets medical treatment whether they are insured or not. I will bet you dollars to donuts that any injuries that the man sustained were treated in a timely and adequate fashion if any treatment was required.
Also, that story sounds like it is contrived by the media. Please provide me a link.
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