Comment Re:Keywords: Government. Health Care. Disaster (Score 1) 405
Can you give some better source for these statistics? As someone from the UK they look bizarre to me.
For instance this site reports survival rates for prostate cancer as USA 88%, UK 70%.
I wonder how old these statistics are after finding the following on another site;
"The estimated relative five-year survival rate for women diagnosed in England and Wales in 2001-2003 was 80 per cent, compared with only 52 per cent for women diagnosed in 1971-1975..."
Also, while it is common practice to quote statistics for the USA vs the UK, the British NHS has been underfunded for a long time and is only now catching up in a lot of areas. Many other European state funded systems have far better statistics.
For instance this site reports survival rates for prostate cancer as USA 88%, UK 70%.
I wonder how old these statistics are after finding the following on another site;
"The estimated relative five-year survival rate for women diagnosed in England and Wales in 2001-2003 was 80 per cent, compared with only 52 per cent for women diagnosed in 1971-1975..."
Also, while it is common practice to quote statistics for the USA vs the UK, the British NHS has been underfunded for a long time and is only now catching up in a lot of areas. Many other European state funded systems have far better statistics.
