57% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK will die.
50% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer in France and Germany will die.
According to the US Census Bureau 59.3 % of Americans have employer provided health insurance, 27.8 % have government provided health insurance, 9% purchase health insurance directly. This is where the figure of 46.7 million uninsured Americans comes from... the 15.3% left uninsured in the US Census Bureau statistics. What they aren't telling you is that according to the Canadian government's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), 5% of Canadians don't have access to a regular doctor and 9% have never tried finding one.
Hmmm 15.3% in the US and 14% in Canada, doesn't seem so shockingly disparate now, does it?
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act in the US forbids US healthcare providers from denying treatment of emergency conditions based on insurance or inability to pay.
42% of Canadians wait 2 hours or more for emergency room treatment vs 29% of Americans.
57% of Canadians wait 4 weeks or more to see a specialist vs 23% of Americans.
21% of Canadian hospital administrators said it would take over three weeks to perform a breast cancer biopsy on a 50 year old vs 1% of US hospital administrators.
Bill Day, President of the Canadian national association of doctors described Canada as a country where a dog can get a hip replacement in one to two weeks but the owner would need to wait two to three years for the same procedure.
In the French 2003 heatwave 13,000 people died of dehydration, hospitals were so overwhelmend they stopped answering their phones and ambulances told people to fend for themselves.
How much of European medicine is already subsidized by Americans? 70% of pharmaceutical research dollars comes from the US. Both US and European drug companies sell their products for a premium in the US and at or just above cost in European countries with socialized medicine. The American free-market consumer subsidizes his European socialist counterparts in the prices paid for needed medicines. With an American socialized medical system one of two things is going to happen, either the money for research is going to dwindle, or the costs for Canadians and Europeans is going to go up.
As Europe ponders privatization, America contemplates socialization.
Go Figger!
