I prefer to keep the "clunker" I have, thank you

Here are 10 reasons to refute the notion that U.S. health care system is in desperate need of a government trade-in:

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.
2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.
3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.
4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.
5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.
6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.
7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.
8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.
9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.
10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.

The linked article from which this list is taken was written by Scott W. Atlas, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of radiology and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical School.

Dr. Atlas adds discussion of each point at the link. Read the whole thing – it will be good for you.

UPDATE [HGS]: In the comments, Marc makes the eminently reasonable request for links documenting the claims. We aim to please.