re: #407 arf

The words I used were “not so sure” with one example with one cancer. Maybe this particular cancer is done the exact same way both sides of the pond, every palliative and experimental treatment. Maybe not. You’re the one speaking in absolutes.

Gotta go, I have patients to see.

Yes arf, my point being it is wrong to capitalise on this one example as somehow “proving” that the NHS is inferior with the statement “If Ted Kennedy lived under ObamaCare, he would have died last year” that was a ridiculous assertion. From personal experience I know that the surgery he received, which allowed him several more months of life, is also available under the socialised NHS, Canada and Germany.

There are many, many valid arguments why the present US system is superior on a macro level, this particular simplistic example is not one of them. The anti-Obamacare side is weakened by such flippant remarks just as the AGW skeptic side is weakened by facile arguments that wrongly attack its scientific basis. If we are to mount a credible opposition we need to up our game.