xml=/news/2007/08/21/ncancer121.xml">This article caught my attention. There has been outrage today that Rudi Guilliani has a ad which implies that prostate cancer survival rates are dramatically lower in the UK under its system of (expensive) socialized medicine than in the US.
The outrage seems to be that money is needed for medical care in the US. It is as if it is perfectly OK for more people to die from preventable illness in the UK because at least we don't require patients to have money.
The US system is a deeply flawed one, to be sure, but to defend the British system because it is morally superior even though it has worse health outcomes seems deeply perverse. But as Nigel Lawson once said, the NHS is the closest thing Britain has to a national religion.
