Why Doesn't America Have Socialized Medicine?

Well it's not for lack of trying. Of course Hillary Clinton tried during her husband's first term in office and John Kerry made it part of his platform for President. So why, with so much effort having been put into it by it's proponents hasn't universal healthcare happened here in the U.S.A.?

Ralph R. Reiland of PittsburghLive.com breaks it down:

In "Die in Britain, survive in U.S.," the cover article of the February 2005 issue of The Spectator, a British magazine, James Bartholomew details the downside of Britain's universal health care system.

Among women with breast cancer, for example, there's a 46 percent chance of dying from it in Britain, versus a 25 percent chance in the United States. "Britain has one of
worst survival rates in the advanced world," writes Bartholomew, "and America has the best."

If you're a man diagnosed with prostate cancer, you have a 57 percent chance of it killing you in Britain. In the United States, the chance of dying drops to 19 percent. Again, reports Bartholomew, "Britain is at the bottom of the class and America is at the top."

Read the entire article here.

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