Here is Susan Waitkus' letter to the editor.
It always astounds me when someone declares that nationalized health care in the rest of the world is such a disaster. Is that why the U.S. is 29th in infant mortality? That is fact as reported by the most recent 2004 Centers for Disease Control comparison. Is that why we are 42nd in life expectancy? That is fact as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. Not just some unsubstantiated declaration. Just because you read it in a letter to the editor or hear a Republican on a Sunday morning talk show doesn't make it true. Our health care system is great in the U.S. if you have a good insurance policy, but not so much when you have no insurance and a family member is ill.
Susan Waitkus
Allen Township
Susan, those infant mortality numbers have been used by liberals for years.
The reason, there is a more recent report too Susan but your source didn't want to look for it, is that in the United States we have many more premature infants which we try to save. In most countries any chance of a birth defect means that the baby is aborted, thus we try to save more infants as opposed to killing babies before they are born.
Here are some other numbers for you Susan.
Breast cancer deaths are 52% higher in Germany than in the US, 88% higher in the United Kingdom.
Prostate deaths are 604% higher!!! in the UK and 457% higher in Norway than in the US. All have socialized medicine which you Susan, advocate.
Canada 9% higher death rate for cancers overall, 184% higher prostate death rates in Canada than in the US. I could go on Susan but.... you use a outdated statistic without proper background to try and argue for socialized medicine. Help those without catastrophic health insurance but keep your hands off of the other 280 million Americans insurance Susan. Susan, it always astounds me when people use that same old argument.
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