HEALTHCARE SURVEY: UNITED STATES, ENGLAND & CANADA
By Joel Rosenberg, from "Joel's Rant", a politically conservative blog
INTERESTING STATISTICS
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.
These results are completely consistent with virtually all other reports you can fund regarding the status of healthcare in England and Canada as
compared to that which we take for granted in the United States.
If there is anyone who would prefer to be seriously ill in a country other than the United States I'd be interested in hearing from you.
Moreover, it was Sen. Harry Reid who said, "Elderly Americans must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age." 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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COMPARE THE PAST 19 PRESIDENTS' CABINETS
Here are 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 live business, not a government job.
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%
And the winner 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?
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 neither have 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" when
they should have been in an employment line.
DO YOU WANT THE INEXPERIENCED TEAM OF PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS COMMUNITY-ACTIVIST CABINET AND CZARS
TO ADMINISTER YOUR HEALTHCARE IN THE CHICAGO STYLE?
