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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (575929)	7/10/2010 11:02:58 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585195

You retired or still working?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (575929)	7/11/2010 9:38:13 AM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585195

The national cancer survival rates aren't a matter of anecdote. BTW "Aunt Tillie's" are real people who suffer and die prematurely in the kind of systems liberals propose for us. ---------------- ..... These international results replicate those that appeared in a broader cancer review of Europe and the United States, published in September 2007 in The Lancet Oncology. For the sixteen types of cancer examined in that paper, American men have a five-year SURVIVAL RATE of 66 percent, compared with only 47 percent for European men. In Europe, only Sweden has an overall SURVIVAL RATE of more than 60 percent. American women have a 63 percent chance of living at least five years after a cancer diagnosis, compared with 56 percent for European women; only five European countries have an overall SURVIVAL RATE of more than 60 percent. Looking at specific cancers yields striking results: For men, the bladder cancer SURVIVAL RATE in the United States is 15 percent higher than the European average. With prostate cancer, the gap is even larger: 28 percent. For American women, the uterine cancer SURVIVAL RATE is 5 percent higher than the European average; for breast cancer, it is 14 percent higher. The United States has SURVIVAL rates of 90 percent or higher for five cancers (skin melanoma, breast, prostate, thyroid, and testicular), but there is only one cancer for which the European SURVIVAL RATE reaches 90 percent (testicular). Lung cancer, once considered a death sentence, now has better SURVIVAL rates over five years—and Americans do better than Europeans, 16 percent versus 11 percent. ..... thenewatlantis.com ...... 14: The percentage of all patients in Britain who wait more than one (1) year to receive treatment after a referral by a general practitioner. Half of all National Health Care patients in Britain wait between 18 and 52 weeks for treatment. ..... 90: Number of days, on average, each Canadian patient must wait for an MRI under the Canadian government-run health care system. 750: The estimated number of people waiting in line (in the pouring rain) at Britain's Bury Office attempting to register for dental care. .......... 443,849: The number of British patients of the National Healthcare Service (NHS) who waited four or more weeks for inpatient admittance into a hospital (Excel file) in May of 2009 (more than 75% of all patients). 1,500,000: The number of Canadians who do not have -- and cannot find -- a general practitioner/primary care physician due to shortages in medical staff. ......... References: Sick in America: 'Free' Is Good? (ABC News), There's no such thing as free health care (Reason Magazine), Social Security and Medicare Projections: 2009 (National Center for Policy Analysis), Who is Debby Smith?, E.R. P.R., Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2009. directorblue.blogspot.com