An Extraordinary Belief

New York Times David Leonhardt says US health care system broken because of prostate cancer treatment. Or all the diseases he could have chosen! The US is ranked number one in prostate cancer survival rates, Leonhardt ignores this entirely and claims that it's prostate cancer treatment that is driving up the price of health care, actuaries would say the chronic diseases obesity and smoking cause are the lionshare's of their claims.

The most popular readers comments are always entertaining:

"Private insurance is the extraordinary belief that for-profit entities, with profit as their sole motive, will somehow provide good health care for the benefit of all".

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: The US has possesses the leading technology with the success rate to back it up. I'll go a step further for these skeptics: Private grocery stores is the extraordinary belief that for-profit entities, with profit as their sole motive, will somehow provide good clean food for the benefit of all.