This was forwarded to me:
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%
The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet:
- T. Roosevelt 38%
- Taft 40%
- Wilson 52%
- Harding 49%
- Coolidge 48%
- Hoover 42%
- F. Roosevelt 50%
- Truman 50%
- Eisenhower 57%
- Kennedy 30%
- John son 47%
- Nixon 53%
- Ford 42%
- Carter 32%
- Reagan 56%
- GH Bush 51%
- Clinton 39%
- GW Bush 55%
- Obama 8%
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