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Apparently, you were not aware the finest cancer center in the United States is located in the M.D. Anderson complex in Houston, Texas:I strongly suspect that they are very understaffed and underfunded. Texas does not have a good system in terms of health care and oversight. I don't know about PA though.
True, last I looked Texas was listed as having the worst healthcare in the nation.
There's a word for most people who go there (from all over the world) for care, and that word is "cured."MD Anderson: Quick look
Created: 1941
First patient: 1944 (about 900,000 patients treated overall)
Ranking: No. 1 in cancer care, Americas Best Hospitals, U.S. News and World Report (top-ranked nine of past 11 years)
Employees: 19,290
Faculty: 1,644
Volunteers: 1,248
Trainees: 7,496
Average number of operating beds: 616
Research grants: No. 1 in grants awarded and total grant dollars, National Cancer Institute
Active clinical research protocols: 1,078 (about 8,500 patient registrants)
*Data based on fiscal year 2012
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There's a difference between having flagship excellent centers offering specialized care and the general state of health care for most Texans. For example there is no doubt that MdAnderson is a top notch facility but how good is that if the average Texan has no insurance to cover it for examples or access to basic health care such as prenatal care or family planning or preventative healthcare?
Texas ranks worst the highest number of unisured and it's growing: Texas Widens Gap Over Other States in Percentage Uninsured
Texas has slashed funding Planned Parenthood forcing the closure of a number of clinics that service poorer women for things from cervical/breast cancer screening, std prevention, contraception and abortion - in legal early stages. Texas ranks badly in the area of women's healthcare.
In terms of rankings concerning women's healthcare, Texas:
gets a grade of "F" for number of women without health insurance
"U" for number of women in a county without an abortion provider
Those are just in women's issues, but frankly without health insurance it does not matter how good MDAnderson is does it?