US health care: unheralded facts

Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition than you might suppose

The List:

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.
   
2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.
   
3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.
   
4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.
   
5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.
   
6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.
   
7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.
   
8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.
   
9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.
   
10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.
    

Comment: There's certainly room for improvement but a government system, in my view, is not best. Ever been to a VA hospital or known people who have been through that system? Or why is Medicare running out of money? Both government programs.