Senator Dodd: My Prostate Cancer Underscores The Need For Health Care Reform In America
Yeah, he really went there.
My hope is that we will pass the Health Care bill that we passed in the HELP Committee in the Senate so that every American will be able to get an annual physical and talk to their doctor about screening so that problems like this can be caught early and treated.”
Here’s reality, though: The survival rate for prostate cancer in the United States is 99.3%. In Europe, where there is “universal health care” of the sort Democrats favor for here in America?
The survival rate is more like 77.5%.
The survival rate for colon/rectal cancer in the United States is 65.5%. In Europe it’s 56.2%. For breast cancer there’s a 90.1% survival rate in the United States vs. a 79% survival rate in Europe.
In short, Chris Dodd is lucky he got prostate cancer in America before his party has managed to nationalize health care.
