I got the following in an email today and checked snopes to see if it is legit and it seems like the article did get published. Anyway, some interesting numbers if they are true. Thoughts?
“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 a 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 2%
Canada 6%
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want “Universal Healthcare” comparable to England or Canada . Moreover, it was Sen. Harry Reid who said, “Elderly Americans must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age.” SHIP HIM TO CANADA OR ENGLAND! He is “elderly” himself but be sure to remember his health insurance is different from yours as Congress has their own high-end coverage! He will never have to learn to accept “inconveniences”!!!
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AND THE WINNER IS VERY INTERESTING!
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 what 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%
Carter……………… 32%
Reagan……………….56%
GH Bush…………….. 51%
Clinton …………….. 39%
GW Bush……………. 55%
And the winner of the Chicken Dinner is:
Obama……………. 8% !!!
Yep! 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? They know what’s best for GM…Chrysler… Wall Street… and you and me?