Marathon Pundit: Government health care in Britain: Men more at risk from cancer deaths than women

Once government takes over health care, the distribution of it becomes a political act.

A British study shows men are forty percent more likely to die from cancer than women. Yes, women are more likely to visit a doctor and are more like to listen to one.

But that doesn't tell the whole story, as the Daily Mail and Dr. Karol Sikora explains:

But that is by no means the full story. For the fact is that politicians, eager to court the female vote, have long presided over a huge disparity in funding and treatment of female cancer patients at the expense of their male counterparts.

An enormous amount of funds have been spent on breast cancer in the UK--which has saved lives. A very good thing. But there are of course other cancers, some of which afflict both genders.

Take lung cancer, which accounts for almost a quarter of all cancers in men. This is found more commonly in men than women, simply because more men smoke. But the sense of blame attached to what is seen as a selfinduced condition means that nobody wants to talk about lung cancer, still less hold celebrity galas to raise funds for it.

The same is true of the second most common cancer affecting men - prostate cancer, which accounts for around 13 per cent of male cancer cases reported every year.

Partly because no one really knows what, or where, the prostate is, it also receives relatively little attention, despite killing 20,000 men a year - the same as the number of women who die of breast cancer.

When the government--meaning politicians--takes over health care, this is what will happen:

The winners and losers in life will be chosen. Literally.

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