Health Insurance Comparisons

> In case you have not seen these 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 or Canada .
>
> Moreover, it was Sen. Harry Reid who said, “Elderly Americans
> must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age.”

(is this a death panel?)
>
> SHIP HIM 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%
>
> GH Bush…………….. 51%
>
> Clinton …………….. 39%
>
> GW Bush……………. 55%
>
> And the winner of the Chicken Dinner is: Obama 8%!!!

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