Fw: I thought you would find this interesting! ABSOLUTELY

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Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:12 AM

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this is relevant to anyone interested in healthcare............

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There are actually two messages here. The first is very

interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding -

and explains a lot.

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%

And now for the last statistic:

National Health Insurance?

U.S. NO

England YES

Canada YES

LAST BUT NOT LEAST ...!!

The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had

worked in the private business sector prior to their appoint- ment to the

cabinet. These are people who know what a

job is and how to run a corporation for profit ...

T. Roosevelt.................... 38%

Taft.................................. 40%

........................... 52%

Harding........................... 49%

Coolidge......................... 48%

Hoover............................ 42%

F. Roosevelt................... 50%

Truman........................... 50%

Eisenhower................ .... 57%

Kennedy......................... 30%

.......................... 47%

Nixon.............................. 53%

Ford................................ 42%

............................. 32%

Reagan........................... 56%

GH Bush......................... 51%

Clinton .......................... 39%

GW Bush........................ 55%

Obama............................ 8%

This helps to explain the incompetence of this

administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!

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?

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 ever had one and 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. "

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