[Dean's World] Dave Price: Study: America Has Best Overall Cancer Survival Rates

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Posted by Dave Price:
Study: America Has Best Overall Cancer Survival Rates
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1187979170.shtml


   This doesn't include Japan or France, but is still [1]pretty powerful
   evidence our healthcare system is the best in the world.
   [cancer.jpg]
   This data says the oft-publicized plight of the uninsured is not
   dragging U.S. cancer survivability down even to European levels -- and
   cancer is expensive to treat. So either the insured are getting
   incredibly good care, so good it outweighs the alleged 50 million
   uninsured who would supposedly die from lack of treatment if they got
   cancer, or the uninsured are in fact getting treated.
   It's not just that U.S. hospitals treat everyone who shows up needing
   care, or that states have their own systems of funding medical care
   for the poor; there are also all kinds of medical charities, formal
   and informal, a product of American-style capitalism's enormous
   private wealth. These are not hard to come by; in a rural area where I
   lived in for a while, there was a family or ne'er-do-wells notorious
   for fundraising almost every year for supposedly desperately-needed
   kidneys or livers.
   It seems very unlikely a significant enough number of U.S. citizens
   are involuntarily going without medical care in the U.S. to the extent
   that the toll exceeds, per-capita, the excess deaths of citizens being
   forced to wait for medical care or given substandard care in
   socialized systems.

References

   1. http://www.reason.com/blog/show/122091.html