o'facts - stats explain a lot (worth repeating)

 

From: drude Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 Subject: Interesting stats that explain a lot

There are actually two messages here.  The 1st points out the incredible benefits of Universal Healthcare and is very interesting; the 2nd  is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.

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1..  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      02%
Canada      06%

Check this last set of  statistics!!  
  
  2..The  percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the  private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.   
 
Here are the percentages.
T. Roosevelt..................  38%
Taft............................... 40%
Wilson.......................... 52%
Harding........................  49%
Coolidge.......................  48%
Hoover  ........................ 42%
FD Roosevelt...................50%
Truman.........................  50%
Johnson........................ 47%
Nixon............................  53%
Ford.............................  42%
Carter...........................  32%
Reagan.......................... 86%
GH  Bush....................... 51%
Clinton .........................  39%
GW Bush......................  55%

And the winner is: Obama................... 08%
 
This helps to explain the  incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in a job not supported by tax money!

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 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.
Pass this on!  We'll NEVER  see these facts in the main stream media. 
 "One of the penalties  of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your  inferiors."  Plato

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