Stacy Summary:  I was sent this article from the Telegraph I assume as proof that government run health care is disastrous?  The headline reads, “One in six NHS patients ‘misdiagnosed.’  How much do you want to bet that Drudge will carry this headline as propaganda this morning?  Most, however, probably won’t open the article and read that the study on which this headline is based: “The experts drew on research published in the American Journal of Medicine that estimated that up to 15 per cent of all medical cases in developed countries were misdiagnosed.”  I.e., including the UK.    Another headline about the NHS this morning is below.  Missing in the debate in the US about what the UK national health system looks like is that there has been much privatization of certain surgeries (many argue the ‘easy’ and ‘profitable’ ones) such as cataract and joint replacement surgeries to private clinics set up to service just those surgeries.   Of course, outsourcing these easy surgeries makes the survival stats on NHS surgeries look worse (if you want to use stats that way) as they will have a growing concentration of the complicated and dangerous surgeries with fewer ‘easy’ operations; but at least in the UK the citizens are lucky to have the NHS to turn back to when the private sector health care delivers disaster.

• NHS paying high price for bungled hip replacement operations at private centers