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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Very Interesting Indeed


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%

 
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 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%
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 8% ¯ 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. 

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

No surprise,Obama wants to bring this country down not make it better.

Anonymous said...

Radicals. Obama and posse.

Anonymous said...

Marxism is as Marxism does.

Anonymous said...

This country has definately turned SOCIALIST!

Every facet is now socialized and you are seeing the end results. It is going to get worse.

Anonymous said...

obamacare will be the early death of all of us.

Anonymous said...

No body that voted for Obama cares !

Anonymous said...

The only thing obamacare has accomplished, is taking more money out of people's pockets, and inflating the bank accounts of the government and insurance companies. It has not helped anybody improve their health. With the increased rates to pay for health insurance, you are almost better to drop it, and get fined at the end of the year. Problem there, if you really do get sick, most doctors don't see patients without insurance, so in turn, you end up at the ER and get a couple thousand dollars worth of bills. Lose lose situation.