Webloggin » Socialized Health Care Debacle: UK Cancer Survival Rate Tied To Substandard Care

While Hillary Clinton touts the benefits of government managed healthcare there is a failing experiment going on in the UK with the same type of system. Cancer survival rate in the UK lag behind the European average and the rate for the elderly is so abysmal it is called a “cancer timebomb“.

There are many excuses be given as to why this is happening but one common theme keeps arising, substandard care, lack of specialists in a system that does not foster their rise, and an unbelievably long wait time to see a doctor even in the case where urgent care is needed. This last factor is the most often repeated criticism of socialized health care. It is the same kind of criticism being aimed toward the deaf minds behind Hillarycare and the same kind of criticism that is leveled at the Canadian healthcare system.

The following quote from the BBC indicates just how bad it is.

There may be a maximum 62 day wait from urgent GP referral to treatment, but this simply means the start of treatment.

There are instances where people are waiting as long as 16 weeks for post-operative radiotherapy, a key part of their treatment which can maximise their chances of being cured.

Imagine that you have cancer and you try to make your appointment in the United States today. Wait over 2 months? How about 4 for post op radiotherapy? I think not.

The fact of the matter is that the health care system is expensive in the United States but the state of health care is not substandard. But let Hillary Clinton or the Democrats get their hands on it and you can be sure it will become another victim of a government bureaucracy run amok. Keep their socialist hands off your health care. Let them know what you think and by all means VOTE IN 2008!