Here’s a Second Opinion (10 reasons why America’s health care system is better than you might think)

Hoover Institution ^ | March 24, 2009 | Scott W. Atlas

[bobsunshine]

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.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.

[bobsunshine]

(h/t HotAir) An old article but worth a read if you missed it. Gives you facts versus MSM talking points.

[gusopol3]

Bret Baer ,on Fox News Sunday last week, let Gibbs get away with saying other nations have better health outcomes without rebutting him . I think Chris Wallace would have smacked him. I know Brit Hume would have.

[bukkdems]

I have a simple way to solve our health care costs. Let’s make a few dozen safe, effective drugs over-the-counter instead of Rx. I don’t know what percentage of doctor visits are just to get a drug, but in my case it is over half. Just this week, I had to visit a doc-in-a-box to get some earache stuff!

Why, if you are told you need to take a drug for the rest of your life, can’t you get a lifetime prescription?

We don’t have the freedom that a Mexican citizen has, to tell the truth. We’re told to have antibiotics, anti-virals, steroids and antihistamines on hand for emergencies. Try getting your primary physician to prescribe those drugs. In Mexico, you have the dignity to buy any of these things without a doctor, even ED drugs.

I believe many billions could be saved if the enslavement of the people’s access to effective drugs could be ended.

[MadStoic]

Holly Crap,

get a grip, it isn’t about health care....
it’s about control!!

[larry hagedon]

I am alive today because I live in America.

I have Medicare and a private supplemental policy and if I lived in Canada or Great Britain I have no doubt that I would not have recieved life saving medical procedures quickly enough to have survived.

It is my government run Medicare that is the poorest insurance. Thankfully my private supplemental policy fills in the gap. Medicare without the private supplemental coverage is pretty much worhless.