Mtn.man
08-15-2012, 19:44
A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.
Percentage of men and women who survived cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. ................................ 65%
England .......................... 46%
Canada ........................... 42%
Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment
within six months:
U.S. ................................ 93%
England .......................... 15%
Canada ........................... 43%
Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. ................................ 90%
England .......................... 15%
Canada ........................... 43%
Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:
U.S. ................................ 77%
England .......................... 40%
Canada ........................... 43%
Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. ................................ 71
England .......................... 14
Canada ........................... 18
Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in
"excellent health":
U.S. ................................ 12%
England .......................... 02%
Canada ........................... 06%
And now for the last statistic: National Health Insurance?
U.S. ................................ NO
England .......................... YES
Canada ........................... YES
Check this last set of statistics: The percentage of each past
president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. (You know that the private business sector is a real-life business, not a government job.) Here are the percentages.
T. Roosevelt.................. 38%
Taft................................ 40%
Wilson ........................... 52%
Harding.......................... 49%
Coolidge........................ 48%
Hoover ........................... 42%
F. Roosevelt................... 50%
Truman.......................... 50%
Eisenhower.................... 57%
Kennedy......................... 30%
Johnson.........................47%
Nixon............................. 53%
Ford................................ 42%d
Carter............................. 32%
Reagan........................... 56%
G. H. Bush..................... 51%
Clinton ........................... 39%
G. W. Bush.................... 55%
Obama............. 8%
This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business! That's right! Only eight percent; the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business?
How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers”. They should have been in an employment line.
Percentage of men and women who survived cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. ................................ 65%
England .......................... 46%
Canada ........................... 42%
Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment
within six months:
U.S. ................................ 93%
England .......................... 15%
Canada ........................... 43%
Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. ................................ 90%
England .......................... 15%
Canada ........................... 43%
Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:
U.S. ................................ 77%
England .......................... 40%
Canada ........................... 43%
Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. ................................ 71
England .......................... 14
Canada ........................... 18
Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in
"excellent health":
U.S. ................................ 12%
England .......................... 02%
Canada ........................... 06%
And now for the last statistic: National Health Insurance?
U.S. ................................ NO
England .......................... YES
Canada ........................... YES
Check this last set of statistics: The percentage of each past
president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. (You know that the private business sector is a real-life business, not a government job.) Here are the percentages.
T. Roosevelt.................. 38%
Taft................................ 40%
Wilson ........................... 52%
Harding.......................... 49%
Coolidge........................ 48%
Hoover ........................... 42%
F. Roosevelt................... 50%
Truman.......................... 50%
Eisenhower.................... 57%
Kennedy......................... 30%
Johnson.........................47%
Nixon............................. 53%
Ford................................ 42%d
Carter............................. 32%
Reagan........................... 56%
G. H. Bush..................... 51%
Clinton ........................... 39%
G. W. Bush.................... 55%
Obama............. 8%
This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business! That's right! Only eight percent; the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business?
How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers”. They should have been in an employment line.