Entitlement Mentality Gets Us Nowhere

I am on a research assignment for a class that I am enrolled in and was asking a colleague about healthcare. As a financial planner, my friend stays current with trends and he passed on this information. 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

            Check this last set of statistics!!

            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%

            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
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.

         Why hasn't this fact been exposed in the media? Oh wait, the media is state controlled isn't it?