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Perhaps because the US is the home of a number of prestigious colleges and to be with your peers you have to relocate there? You act like the broken healthcare system is the only possible explanation for cases where the US provides better care, but I'm yet to see that proven. Intuitively it doesn't track because many of the issues with the system don't pertain to things like intensive cancer care but to simple things…
Well now you're just making things up. It's not my cancer survival rate number, it's the number published by the CONCORD programme in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. If you had bothered to read the article I linked above then you wouldn't need to doubt because you would know exactly what they factored in.
Re: Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise
#301I did check it, it does not appear to mention this factor at all. I would assume then that they are focusing only on individuals who were able to actually get treatment, since this seems to be the survival rate among patients in treatment.