Political Quotes

“I am a cancer survivor. I happened to have taken a look at the cancer survival rates in foreign countries that have socialized medicine. You notice the U.K. survival rate of cancer in men is a whole lot less than it is in the U.S. Well, why would that be? Is it that the cancer technology is different? I don't think so. I think the deal on cancer is if you've got it, you want to get treated as quick as you can. So what happens in the U.S., you don't have the same waiting line. Now, you start putting those waiting lines in and it starts to affect your statistics of what's going to happen on a disease. That's what we talk about when you all of a sudden hear your doctor say, oh, by the way, you're doing great, Blaine, but little detail, you have cancer. That kind of gets your attention. And you think, I better get that dealt with right away. They say, well, that's just fine, but you are going to have to wait for, you know, whatever it is. You are going to have to wait 6 months to get treated. You got melanoma, that's probably not a real good idea to be waiting 6 months. I have a good friend that's a doctor friend of mine, Steve Smith. He has told me that on these kinds of things, you just don't want waiting lines. You just don't want socialized medicine.”