Eye Opening Statistics - Healthcare
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InCharge
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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 OFF 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%
Johnson..............47%
Nixon................ 53%
Ford..................42%
Carter............... 32%
Reagan..............56%
G H Bush............51%
Clinton .............39%
G W 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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- Re: Eye Opening Statistics - Healthc... spudlydoo
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,656,146I searched for this survey and its results, but found nothing, perhaps you can supply a link to the actual data that this article has used, (or even a link to this article), if you have one.
I like to check the veracity of info, thats all.
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Re: Eye Opening Statistics - Healthc... InCharge
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This is a reply to # 1,656,256I got this via email. Tried to verify it with Snopes using various search criteria. Couldn't find anything.
However, using this "United Nations International Health Organization healthcare statistics" in google I came across the following. Somebody emailed IBD who sent this to them.
http://curezone.com/upload/Video/Stats.jpg
It sources Rep. Mark Kirk and another site pointed to this page.
http://kirk.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3621&...
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- Re: Eye Opening Statistics - Verifie... RyanD
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This is a reply to # 1,656,146I actually thought these statistics very genuine ,anyone with a bit of common sense and thinking abilities would find it hard to try and discredit these realities in health care!
http://kirk.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3621&Itemid=88
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=54884
- True Statistics - Healthcare
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This is a reply to # 1,656,146Some real health care stats, courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_compared#Cross-country_comparisons
Life Expectancy
Canada - 80.7 years
UK - 79.1 years
USA - 78.1 years
Infant Mortality Rate
Canada - 5.0/thousand
UK - 4.8/thousand
USA - 6.7/thousand
Per Capita Expenditure on Health ($USD)
Canada - $3895
UK - $2992
USA - $7290
Healthcare costs as % of GDP
Canada - 10.1%
UK - 8.4%
USA - 16.0%
To put it plainly for the political zealots, American health care costs a lot more than in other countries and delivers less.
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