Section of Health Care Paper Draft

Here is a section from my health care paper for english rough draft. This part is about countries with universal health care:

While congress and the senate rush to pass a health reform bill in hopes of an on course sail towards a universal health care system, many countries all across the world are learning all too well the problems that can arise. Canada’s single payer system has left their system in turmoil as only 40% of Canadians are satisfied with their health care versus 53% here.
Using European health care as an example is self defeating. In European countries woman have an average cancer survival rate of 53%. This while in the United States woman have a 63% cancer survival rate. The statistics for men tell an even worse story; the survival rate for men in Europe is 47% and 66% in the United States [1]. Cancer treatments in these systems are also dreadful. In Canada only 53% of women with cervical cancer have pap smears, and of course the States have a much higher rate with 85% of women getting pap smears. In Britain 13% of patients never get radiation for cancer due to shortage. Due to the terrible wait times in Britain the NHS set out laws that patients must be treated in hospitals within eight hours of arrival. Now those hospitals are so smart, they set it up so that patients are instead forced to wait in ambulances, that way they never enter the hospital and they do not have to abide by that rule [2]. This is not because they are mean, but because they simply cannot treat them all.
Surely Canada’s wait times are better right? There they have what is called ‘single payer health care.’ The government pays everyone’s health costs and provides free care. On the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care site for Ontario one can see how long certain wait times are. The average wait time for generic surgery is about seven months. Cancer treatment had the same wait time. 40% of Canadians cannot gain access to a physician even with the free health care [3].
Now people In the United States claim that insurance companies ration care but Ontario has just decided to cut off funding for colorectal cancer patients taking a life-prolonging drug, in order to save $9-million a year [4]. So far in every category the U.S. has beat out other countries in health care systems. In the states no one has to pay 70% of their income for free health care. The U.S. has superior cancer survival rates and with the exception of Medicare (go figure) takes in most patients and does not ration care. Clearly the U.S. system is the ideal model for the world not the National Health Service.

[1] (National Center for Policy Analysis)
[2] (UK Daily Telegraph)
[3] (Canadian Medical Administration)
[4] (Canadian National Post)