Those little numbers at the end of the lines are footnotes :P [2] U.S. Cancer Statistics, National Program of Cancer Registries, U.S. Centers for Disease Control; Canadian Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute of Canada; also see June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.," National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 13429, September 2007. Available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w13429.
[4] June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S." http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/13429.html [5] Ibid. [6] Nadeem Esmail, Michael A. Walker with Margaret Bank, "Waiting Your Turn, (17th edition) Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada," Fraser Institute, Critical Issues Bulletin 2007, Studies in Health Care Policy, August 2008; Nadeem Esmail and Dominika Wrona "Medical Technology in Canada," Fraser Institute, August 21, 2008 ; Sharon Willcox et al., "Measuring and Reducing Waiting Times: A Cross-National Comparison Of Strategies," Health Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 4, July/August 2007, pages 1,078-87; June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."; M.V. Williams et al., "Radiotherapy Dose Fractionation, Access and Waiting Times in the Countries of the U.K.. in 2005," Royal College of Radiologists, Clinical Oncology, Vol. 19, No. 5, June 2007, pages 273-286. [7] Nadeem Esmail and Michael A. Walker with Margaret Bank, "Waiting Your Turn 17th Edition: Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada 2007." [8] "Hospital Waiting Times and List Statistics," Department of Health, England. Available at http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/HospitalWaitingTimesandListStatistics/index.htm?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=186979&Rendition=Web. [9] Cathy Schoen et al., "Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults' Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries, 2007," Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, Vol. 26, No. 6, October 31, 2007, pages w717-w734. Available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/26/6/w717. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Larry Lyons<[email protected]> wrote: > > Now where did you get these so called facts? From a peer reviewed > epidemiological or other recognized scientific journal? A special report from > the Centers for Disease Control? Or a report from the Institutes of Medicine? > No a blog or a political group. Not exactly the most reliable of sources. > > Comparing survival rates for cancer, Canada has a higher rate compared to the > US. According to statistics published by the US Cancer Statistic Working > Group the CDC and the Canadian Cancer Society, the US has a signficantly > statistically lower survival rate than Canada for both men and women, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_and_American_health_care_systems_compared > for a good summary. > > I could go through your points line by line, but frankly its not worth it > when your sources are pathetic to say the least. Sam at least try to use > something that has a minimum of scientific validity, instead of your usual > ideologically oriented faith based science. > > >> http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649#_ednref1 >> Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than >> Canadians >> Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer >> screening than Canadians. >> Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than >> comparable Canadians. >> Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients >> in Canada and the U.K. >> Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of >> health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. >> Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive >> than Canadians. >> Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new >> technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:302766 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
