Cancer Survival Rates Highest in US

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ALDQAFHLW3BERQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/08/21/ncancer121.xml ^

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Cancer survival rates in Britain are among the lowest in Europe, according to the most comprehensive analysis of the issue yet produced.

European cancer survival rates

England is on a par with Poland despite the NHS spending three times more on health care.

Survival rates are based on the number of patients who are alive five years after diagnosis and researchers found that, for women, England was the fifth worst in a league of 22 countries. Scotland came bottom. Cancer experts blamed late diagnosis and long waiting lists.

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[mewzilla]

Cancer experts blamed late diagnosis and long waiting lists.

Paging Hillary Clinton....

[mtbopfuyn]

That won’t last long if Hill gets anywhere near the WH again.

[MichiganConservative]

Don’t worry. As soon as Americans get what they want and have “the government” pay for their “healthcare”, those cancer survival rates will go down.

[gridlock]

Cancer experts blamed late diagnosis and long waiting lists.

More likely it was the result of rationing. Long waiting lists are one manifestation of rationing. Another is being told to go home and die because your prospects are too poor to justify the expenditure of precious, precious government money.

[Darkwolf377]

This can’t be right. I’m sure the NYTimes, Olberman, DU, KOS and others will leap to denounce this awful news which shows that the US isn’t the absolute worst in the world about something.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

We apologize to the rest of the world for better at fighting diseases and promise never to do it again. /sarc

[mewzilla]

More likely it was the result of rationing.

In other words: socialized medicine.

[gridlock]

As far as the Government is concerned, the lower the cancer survival rate, the better.

Cancer survivors consume far more than their share of health benefits, are less productive, on average, than other people their age, and live on to consume government pensions and entitlements. It is far better, from the government’s point of view, if they just die quickly and quietly, so all that money can be saved.

[SolidWood]

Too bad Cuba didn’t make it to the list. LOL.
Also France “figures not aviable” speaks volumes.

[Oldexpat]

There is no doubt in my mind that I would not have survived cancer in Canada or the UK. The waits and rationing are deadly to the patients. And I see a lot of welfare cases at the same hospital getting the same excellent care.
My advise to those who wish for socialized medicine..move to Canada.

[Vinnie]

ping for later.

[joeystoy]

This is a disaster. Longer survival rates mean more food consumption, more driving, more home heating and cooling, more flatulence, more exhaling of CO2, more of everything that’s gonna cause the world to burn to a cinder.

Once again, America has no heart and no regard for what’s in the best interests of the planet.

Oh, woe is us.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well ... yeah ... but ... health care is free in Cuba.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Bet Fidel wishes he was here right about now.

[magslinger]

cc:Michael Moore

[BillyBonebrake]

Canada did even make the list?

I’m dying to know where Canada came in, no pun intended.

[bmwcyle]

This can’t be. We need bigger governmnet now. We are also not winning the war!!!!!!!! /sarcasm

[Brujo]

Canada did even make the list?

I'm dying to know where Canada came in, no pun intended.

Hmm, Canada isn't even on the list? Is that because

• Canada wasn't important enough to list? (Hard to believe since they have a number for Slovenia!)
• People in Canada don't get cancer (or not enough of them do) so there's no statistically significant result?
• Canada's numbers are worse than anyone in the list so they fell off the bottom? (All joking aside, that would be really hard to believe.)
• Canada is just part of the US anyway so the numbers for Canada are folded into the US number. (JOKE, JOKE, JOKE! GEEZ, STOP HITTING ME!)
• Or, most likely, the chart represents European survival rates only, with the US tossed in (on the top!) to infuriate the supporters of socialized medicine. (The funniest thing is that France isn't listed. According to the chart, “Figures for France not available”.)