Rudy Giuliani Causes An International Flap

7:15 pm EST November 4th, 2007 | News | 3 Comments

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Britain’s health secretary complained on Thursday about an advertisement run by Rudy Giuliani, saying the U.S. Republican presidential candidate had maligned Britain’s health care system with bad statistics.

In the radio ad, Giuliani, who has suffered prostate cancer, said the U.S. survival rate for the disease was 82 percent, but the survival rate in Britain was just 44 percent “under socialized medicine”.

Britain’s Health Secretary Alan Johnson said Giuliani’s figures were wrong and the survival rate under Britain’s National Health Service was in fact much higher.

“The British NHS should not become a political football in American presidential politics,” Johnson told The Times newspaper.

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3 Responses to “Rudy Giuliani Causes An International Flap”

  1. fredfarkle says:
    November 4, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    how much higher exactly?

  2. jon says:
    November 4, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Maybe Mr. Johnson could sue Rudy using Britain’s less-than-scrupulous libel laws. Unfortunately, this would probably give Mayor G a lock on the nomination.

  3. jon says:
    November 4, 2007 at 9:20 pm

    Maybe Mr. Johnson could sue Rudy using Britain’s less-than-scrupulous libel laws. Unfortunately, this would probably give Mayor G a lock on the nomination.