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England does not equal socialized medicine
Slate did a terrific piece on this not long ago, actually, talking about how the anti-universal coverage folks love to highlight the abysmal cancer survival rates in England. Indeed, it appears, England is some kind of poster child for bad cancer outcomes. Conservatives like to treat England as if it were the only socialized-medicine exemplar because that supports their view, but they ignore that England is a complete outlier. The average survival rate of all other nations with socialized medicine is significantly greater than that of the US.
Basically, using England is a straw argument. So it's bad that Giuliani flubbed his numbers, but I think what he set out to do was even worse!