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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Welcome to the Healthcare System of the Future!

The future that the Clintons aspired to, anyway. I think I speak for most Americans when I say that I would rather have my leg taken off than have a Canadian style health care system and this article, Die in Britain, survive in the US, in the British politcal Journal, The Spectator, explains why.


Here's a teaser:


Suppose you come down with one of the big killer illnesses like cancer. Where do you want to be — London or New York? In Lincoln, Nebraska or Lincoln, Lincolnshire? Forget the money — we will come back to that — where do you have the best chance of staying alive?

The answer is clear. If you are a woman with breast cancer in Britain, you have (or at least a few years ago you had, since all medical statistics are a few years old) a 46 per cent chance of dying from it. In America, your chances of dying are far lower — only 25 per cent. Britain has one of the worst survival rates in the advanced world and America has the best.

If you are a man and you are diagnosed as having cancer of the prostate in Britain, you are more likely to die of it than not. You have a 57 per cent chance of departing this life. But in America you are likely to live. Your chances of dying from the disease are only 19 per cent. Once again, Britain is at the bottom of the class and America at the top.
Read the article. Savor your good fortune that you were born here.

This article describes the consequences of the system the Clintons were purposing to inflict on you and your family. Don’t’ worry for the Clintons, however, I know that they would had already designed some escape-hatch beforehand—they always do.

Like the ghost of Christmas future, this article is a forewarning of the consequences of wrong choices.

Hat tip to New Sisyphus.