Life and Death Health Care Numbers

Michael Tanner (Cato) wrote a short but interesting piece today ("Conquering Cancer with Private Medicine") that includes some numbers comparing mortality rates for those diagnosed with several types of cancer in various countries. As I would have expected, the much maligned (in some quarters) US health care system comes out ahead in this life and death survey. Countries that have varying levels of socialized medicine, in which many forms of medical care are rationed, postponed, or delayed, have worse numbers.