Michael Tanner goes through all of the cancer statistics and hits a point I found odd in the criticism of Giuliani’s claims, too: If socialized medicine encourages (or mandates) more preventive care, why are people like this guy
Don McCanne, a senior health policy fellow at Physicians for a National Health Program, conceded that the five-year survival rate for cancer diagnoses is higher in the United States than in many countries that have single-payer systems, though the disparity is not as great as Giuliani claims in his ad.
But he said that any such comparison is flawed, since it fails to take into account the additional investment in cancer education and screening in the United States. Much of the gap would be closed if other countries invested similar sums in catching cancer early.
disputing Rudy’s statistic because the U.S. screens more frequently for cancer?
