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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

America’s healthcare system was the best in the world by far! So was their political system!!!

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 actually 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"!!!

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%  - 2nd Lowest
Johnson...................47%
Nixon...................   53%
Ford......................  42%
Carter...................   32% - 3rd Lowest
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?

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 has 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.

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