A major European study of cancer survival rates has shown what many in the health care industry have known and witnessed for years - socialized medicine is hazardous to your health.
The study in Lancet Oncology found the highest cancer survival rates in the USA, where care can be accessed on a much more timely basis in a (relatively) free market system. The UK, with its vaunted "free" system, scores near the bottom of the group.
Why is this you ask? Don Watkins of ARI sums it up nicely.
I saw no mention of Canada in the parts I read, but you can be sure that we tend to the British end of the spectrum.
Shona Holmes had to flee a country where doctors can be jailed for the crime of practicing medicine in a timely fashion in order to get treatment that saved her vision and probably her life. The country that was unwilling to treat her cancer to be treated before it caused irreparable harm? Canada.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
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