The Hoover Institute's Scott Atlas has a list of 10 reasons why our health care system is better than in other countries.The figures for cancer survivability are astonishing:1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher. 2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher. We also do better with treating chronic disease as well as giving more citizens wider access to preventive care, like screenings for some cancers.Then there's the familiar fact that...(Read Full Post)