Political Quotes

“And I certainly appreciate the question, because we just happen to have a chart here. And this is a chart, as it says, government-run care means lower survival rates for cancer. Now, we have been told by friends across the aisle, well, but if you look at England or you look at other countries, you find that they have a longer life expectancy than we do in America. Well, not if you're looking at cancer survival rates. If you compare apples to apples, you find out, as my friend from Iowa said, there is no better health care anywhere in the world when you want a good, the best survival rate, whether it's cancer, heart disease or whatever. Now, the place where the statistics get skewed is our life expectancy in the United States has added in and this is terribly unfortunate, a higher murder rate than some of those countries have. And one other thing that really skews the figures in the United States is that when a baby is born, it doesn't matter if that baby is 20 weeks premature, 10 weeks, 8 to 10 weeks, like my wife's and my first child, if that child is born alive and subsequently dies, even if it's an hour later, that counts in our statistics because in America the majority still feels that every life counts. Well, in many of the countries that they try to compare us with with our life expectancy, if a baby is born prematurely and dies, they don't count that. We count it here.…”