Political Quotes

“I am a cancer survivor myself. If you take a look at cancer survival rates in England, you find they tend to be about 20 percent worse than they are in America. Why is that? Well, you have explained it very accurately, and that is cancer is particularly sensitive. When you diagnose it, you want to get to it quickly before it spreads or gets too bad. The idea of putting someone on a long waiting list is deadly when you are dealing with cancer. So if you have cancer, you have a much, much higher percent of dying from that if you are in Canada or particularly in England, and it is because of the waiting list. Governments have a little bit of sensitivity to them. Instead of telling you that they are going to deny your health care, they say no, you have to get in line. You can get a free Cesarian section; you just have to wait 12 months. But I needed it in 9. Well, that is a problem, isn't it. So what you are talking about is a sensitive subject to me because I had cancer in this country. When they discovered it, I thought it was time to take care of it right away and so did the doctor and so did the hospital.”