DEBUNKING SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

A National Bureau of Economic Research study re: U.S./Canadian patient survey to show that:

• The percent of middle-aged Canadian women who have never had a mammogram is double the U.S. rate.
• The percent of Canadian women who have never had a pap smear is triple the U.S. rate.
• More than 8 in 10 Canadian men have never had a PSA test, compared with less than half of U.S. men.

These differences in screening likely explain why U.S. cancer patients do better than their Canadian counterparts:

• The mortality rate for breast cancer is 25 percent higher in Canada.
• The mortality rate for prostate cancer is 18 percent higher in Canada.
• The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among Canadian men and women is about 13 percent higher than in the United States.

Amazingly, there are quite a few Canadians who are not being treated for conditions that clearly require a doctor's attention:

• Among senior citizens, the fraction of Canadians with asthma, hypertension, and diabetes who are not getting care is twice the rate in the United States.
• The fraction of Canadian seniors with coronary heart disease who are not being treated is nearly three times the U.S. rate.

[i.e., the panacea often painted of 'universal' systems doesn't exist, and is statistically worse than our current system - now consider that any such government run system must destroy its private sector competition to function, and our choice is clear: continue to pressure the private system to improve above the 85% it already serves well, or hand the reigns to government and begin the slide to overpriced incompetence for all that we'll have no power to change]

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