17,000 Deaths

It’s a cost of Great Britain’s National Health Care. According to the Taxpayers’ Alliance in London, national health care killed more than 17,000 Britons in 2004. This is another example that universal-health care doesn’t work.

The TPA thus calculates that the NHS took the lives of 17,157 Britons who otherwise would have survived were they treated by doctors across the English Channel. This figure is more than two-and-a-half times Britain’s yearly alcohol-related deaths, and is quintuple its annual highway fatalities. Comparing 60 million Brits to 300 million Yanks, this is like a federally-operated health agency eliminating 85,785 Americans in 2004.

When the government creates more regulations and more controls, we end up with less quality and in this case, low mortality rate.

A September 2007 Lancet Oncology article found 66.3 percent of American men alive five years after cancer diagnosis. Among male Finns, that figure was 55.9 percent, while only 44.8 percent of Englishmen survived after five years. Across the European Union, 20.1 females per 100,000 under 65 died prematurely of circulatory disease. Among British women, that number was 23.6.
Collectively, these data strongly rebuff the notion that America’s imperfect health-care industry needs a booster shot of mandates and regulations. What it sorely lacks is more choice, competition and freedom - and loads less government.

Why don’t we let the free market decide? We will have more choice, better quality and better price.

NY Post: 17,000 DEATHS