More on Rudy's Manhattan Institute Buddies

The New York Times covered the controversy in this morning's newspaper. The big laugh line is the Manhattan Institute's Gratzer accusing the Commonwealth Fund of having an ideological bias for trying to correct his ideologically-driven misuse of their statistics.

Bottom line: Great Britain's five-year cancer survival rate is 74 percent, not much below the U.S. survival rate of 82 percent. And, of course, the U.S. incidence rate is far higher because of all the PSA screening that we do, which leads to more people getting diagnosed and more people getting treatment of cancers that would never have harmed them. That artificially inflates the five-year survival rate and may account for most of the difference.