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Still thinking there is nothing wrong with the proposed Obamacare? Still thinking it might be okay, and that really, we have to take care of all those uninsured – even though there really isn’t any such thing, as it is AGAINST THE LAW for a (non-private) hospital to turn down any patient, regardless of their financial situation?
Well, on Hot Air today, I found some great statistics! Here are a few:
60: Average cancer survival rate (all types) for patients in the United States. Canada’s survival rate is significantly lower at 55%, while Europe’s is a dismal 48%.
81: Average percentage of those who survive a diagnosis of prostate cancer in the United States versus 43% in Britain under their National Health Service.
90: Number of days, on average, each Canadian patient must wait for an MRI under the Canadian government-run health care system.
Not good enough for you? How about these:
10,000: Number of Canadian breast cancer patients to file a class action lawsuit against Quebec’s hospitals because, on average, they were forced to wait 60 days to begin post-operative radiation treatments.
280,392: The number of jobs that employers would shed if government levied an employer mandate, requiring them to insure all employees. A 2007 study by Katherine Baicker of Harvard University and Helen Levy of the University of Michigan (“Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment“) found that “0.2 percent of all full-time workers and 1.4 percent of uninsured full-time workers would lose their jobs if a health insurance mandate were written into law. Workers who would lose their jobs are disproportionately likely to be high school dropouts, minority, and female.”
There are more stats that are equally interesting and I heartily suggest you read them all. Heck, use these stats in your efforts to convince your state representatives that their careers are at risk if they pass this proposal.
If you don’t believe these facts, you can research online and get your own facts and stats. They are everywhere. Obama chooses to either ignore them or to edit them for his own purposes, ie: “There are many countries who have the single payer system, and it works pretty darned good”. There is nowhere where it works ‘pretty darned good’. And it won’t work pretty darned good here, either. The big problem is, where will WE go for quality health care when the U.S.’s healthcare system is nationalized? Switzerland?
For the full article: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/07/state-run-health-care-by-the-numbers/
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I am a reformed bleeding heart California Liberal, who saw the light and learned the truth when I met my soul mate, drscoundrel, who became my husband almost 15 years ago. Before I met him, I was blind. He is my light. Together we hope to bring logic and thoughfulness to you all. 
Not to mention that the NHS in the UK costs more to administer the program than it spends on direct medical care.