Giuliani Is a Big Fat Liar

On the campaign trail, Rudy Giuliani is letting go a whopper. He is stating that the survival rate in Britain for prostate cancer (which he had) is only 44%, or half what it is here. Seems that this is simply not true. Giuliani got his figures from the right wing Manhattan Institute, which offes no basis for them. The actual figures from the British government show almost identical survival rates.

Rudy is just playing the scare tactic regarding any reform of the health system. The GOP has been doing this for years which is why we have the worst health care system in the developed world. (Remember that sweet elderly couple that scared out us out of reform in 1995?) How many times will we fall for the trope that any humane reform of the health care system will turn us into Kruschev era Russia?

Also, why is Rudy's big fat lie not a bigger story? Why hasn't this been another $400 haircut? Credit to Paul Krugman for breaking the whole story in the NYT, but where the hell is the rest of the media?