Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: A National Health Service: Costly, Yes, and Powerful, Too

Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: A National Health Service: Costly, Yes, and Powerful, Too

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Not only would we have a huge, inefficient bureaucracy had we created a National Health Service along with Britain 50 years ago, we'd have poorer care for the elderly and a lower cancer survival rate.

Every day I thank God for the medical care that I was able to receive when I found that I had prostate cancer in 2006. At my age, were I in Britain, I could not have seen a specialist as quickly or have had the same type and quality of treatment. But in America, even with all the problems we have in health care, I had a 90+% chance of survival. In Great Britain? Under 50%.

Now tell me again why we should have government-controlled, socialized medicine?