Interesting Statistics

March 26, 2010 | Received as email

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Subject: 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 orCanada .

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%

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 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.

[library user]

Shouldn’t the last part say UNemployment line?

[dalebert]

well you can look for a big drop in our stats.

[Filo]

Is there a link to the IBD article and, there, hopefully a link to the study?

[Spartan79]

Googling “IBD International Health Organization survey” brings up a number of hits, but they all have a warning: “This site may harm your computer.” Don’t know what’s going on.

[Filo]

Hmm.

While I’d love the info to be true, I won’t use it unless it’s verifiable. Nothing kills an argument faster than responding with BS numbers. . . :)

[Filo]

There is nothing like those numbers on the IBD site (www.investors.com) per Google which leads me to believe that the numbers are bogus.

[Coyote Choir]

Does anyone seriously believe that the federal government or the major media in years to come, if the Dem majorities and nationalized health care continue, will report un-massaged figures indicating federal health care policies result in more deaths, more serious forms of illness, longer waits, etc.? Will medical facilities or doctors themselves submit accurate figures which do not fit the narrative?

[COUNTrecount]

http://kirk.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3621&Itemid=88

[COUNTrecount]

http://kirk.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3621&Itemid=88

Congressman Mark Kirk
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 00:00
Cites these results

[Filo]

Okay. Better. the Kirk site pointed me to the original study which is a better source. :)

[Post Toasties]

Thanks for the information. I’ll have to pass this along to the most rabid Lefties I come across.

[petercooper]

bttt

[Hoodat]

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