About 14% of all patients in Great Britain must wait more than one year to receive treatment after they have been referred to a specialist by a general practitioner. As much as 50% of patients getting government care in Britain must wait between 18 to 52 weeks for treatment. On average, over three-quarters of Canadians must wait about three months for an MRI under government-operated health care.
I won’t mention dental care. You can imagine how their governments put teeth at the bottom of the List when they cut costs.
More than 75% of British patients in their National Healthcare Service waited four or more weeks for admittance into a hospital (as reported in May, 2009)
That is why the average survival rate for all types of cancer for patients in the United States is 60%. Canada’s survival rate is lower at 55%; Europe’s is much lower at 48%. Or that about 80% survive the prostate cancer diagnosis in the USA , as compared to about 43% in Great Britain, under their nationalized service.
Something the proponents of government health insurance in this country somehow never mention.
Americans, for the most part, are not familiar with this. The media tend to overlook such important facts. The media continue to spout propaganda without too much further analysis.
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