On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:32:14 -0700, "Ray Keller" LEFTARD TROLLS ARE
DESPERATE wrote:



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%
F. 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


Editorial note: It says ".... that had worked..." Well, right away, that's
a red flag about Obama. Oops, he was a Community Organizer. Sorry.


Ray, this is old news. It's been kicked around here before. I'm not
going to rehash it, but let me point out some of the atrocious,
misleading ways this has been presented.

As medical editor, a diabetic, and a former forum administrator on a
diabetes forum, I can assure you that the numbers on diabetes
treatment in the US are NOT the result of great treatment, but rather
the result of our low rates of diagnosis. With a relatively poor
preventive medical system, most diabetics without insurance are never
diagnosed until they have a crisis, and the percentage of those
without insurance who ARE diagnosed at all is half that of those who
have insurance.

Diabetes often is accompanied by other cardiovascular risk factors
(for example, I'm a lean Type I diabetic in fairly good shape, and I
had a heart attack). In the US, the other factors often go untreated
until one has a heart attack.

And so it goes. We have great emergency treatment and we're really
good at treating many conditions. What we're lousy at is preventing
them in the first place. What we're even worse at is controlling
costs. If you want your eyes opened, compare the US health care
results and costs with those of Switzerland. They have not-for-profit
insurance companies.

--
Ed Huntress