QUEEN OF JORDAN HAS HEART PROCEDURE IN NYC/USA, OF ALL PLACES

Jordan's Queen Rania Has Heart Procedure in US

The Royal Palace says Jordan's Queen Rania has undergone a non-surgical procedure in New York to correct an irregular heartbeat.

The 40-year-old Rania accompanied her husband, King Abdullah II, who attended the U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York. She also attended separate functions, including a panel on empowering girls.

A palace statement on Monday says Rania had a catheterization to restore a healthy heart rhythm.

The statement says the procedure went smoothly and that Rania is "well" and in "good spirits."

Rania is to remain in a New York hospital for two nights to recuperate and will return home later in the week.

SHE COULD HAVE FLOWN ANYWHERE AND HAD THIS PROCEDURE ANYWHERE - BY THE NHS IN THE UK OR IN FRANCE, CUBA ETC.

BUT SHE CHOSE TO HAVE IT DONE HERE.

THAT TELLS US - ONCE AGAIN - THAT THE USA MUST HAVE THE BEST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD.

ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU OTHERWISE IS EITHER A DOPE, A DUPE, OR A LEFTIST WHO WANTS TO "FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM AMERICA" INTO A FAILING EURO-SOCIALISTIC STATE.

WE CAN STOP THEM THIS NOVEMBER: VOTE GOP!

ADDENDUM:

US vs. Europe: Life Expectancy and Cancer Survival

Is the U.S. system inferior to those in other developed countries based on life expectancy and cancer survival rates? Not according to economists Robert L. Ohsfeldt (Texas A&M) and John E. Schneider (University of Iowa), who argued in their 2006 book, The Business of Health: The Role of Competition, Markets and Regulation (AEI Press), that the U.S. system actually compares very favorably to the health-care systems of other nations.

1. The top chart above (data here) shows both: a) unadjusted life expectancies for the U.S. and other OECD countries, and b) standardized life expectancies which are adjusted for the effects of premature death resulting from non-health-related fatal injuries. For unadjusted life expectancy, the U.S. ranks #14 out of 16 countries, but for the adjusted standardized life expectancy the U.S. ranks #1.

2. The bottom chart displays five-year age-adjusted cancer survival rates for the U.S. and selected European countries, showing that the U.S. has the best record for five-year survival rates for six different cancers. In some cases the differences are huge: 81.2% in the U.S. for prostate cancer vs. 41% in Denmark and 47.4% in Italy; 61.7% in the U.S. for colon cancer vs. 39.2% in Denmark; 12% in the U.S. for lung cancer vs. 5.6% in Denmark.

Also interesting is the fact that there is often a significant difference between white and black cancer survival rates in the U.S., e.g. prostate cancer - 82.7% for whites vs. 69.2% for blacks (see red circled data in bottom chart). But even in that case, the five-year survival rate for blacks (69.2%) is still higher than for all European countries except Switzerland.

MORE HERE.