> 2/3 of prostate cancer occurs in men over 65. That's the results of being on Medicare, the largest single payer health care system in the world. First: no,

> 2/3 of prostate cancer occurs in men over 65. That's the results of being on Medicare, the largest single payer health care system in the world. First: no, the England branch of the NHS is still larger than Original Medicare (~53 million in England compared to 46 million on Original Medicare). And that might be a reasonable way to interpret the data, except that two-fifths of Medicare patients (and growing) are not on Original Medicare - they use Medicare Advantage, which is privately run. Coincidentally, Medicare Advantage outperforms Original Medicare on medical outcomes across the board, including cancer treatment. So no, the fact that the US is drastically better at keeping prostate cancer patients alive cannot be explained by the claim that Original Medicare is so phenomenally better that it accounts for the difference.