For all you socialized medicine LOVERS out there…..here are some interesting statistics:

These figures reflect the care available to all Americans, not just those with private health coverage. Great Britain, known for its 50-year-old government-run, universal health care system, fares worse than the European average:

• American women have a 63 percent chance of living at least five years after a cancer diagnosis, compared to 56 percent for European women.

• American men have a five-year survival rate of 66 percent — compared to only 47 percent for European men.

• For women, only three European countries (Sweden, Belgium and Switzerland) have an overall survival rate of more than 60 percent

• Among European countries, only Sweden has an overall survival rate for men of more than 60 percent.

• For women, the average survival rate for all cancers is 61 percent in the United States, compared to 58 percent in Canada.

• For men, the average survival rate for all cancers is 57 percent in the United States, compared to 53 percent in Canada.

• British men have a five-year survival rate of only 45 percent; women, only 53 percent.

• In the United States, 85 percent of women aged 25 to 64 years have regular PAP smears, compared with 58 percent in Great Britain.

• In the United States, 84 percent of women aged 50 to 64 years get them regularly — a higher percentage than in Australia, Canada or New Zealand, and far higher than the 63 percent of British women.

I bring this up AGAIN.......because the GUBMENT in their infinite wisdom has changed the age when people should get PREVENTATIVE care.......I thought their whole plan is about PREVENTING disease......

MSNBC's TAKE on the matter:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33973665...womens_health/

A Real NEWS organization's take on the MATTER:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...commendations/

The Obamunists are coming...........the OBAMUNISTS are coming........

Later,

Geo