How Does Obamacare Compare to Other World Health Care Plans?
Question by Phoenix: How does Obamacare compare to other world health care plans?
> In case you have not seen these interesting statistics:
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>
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> A recent “Investor’s Business Daily” article provided very
> interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations
> International Health Organization.
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> Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years
> after diagnosis:
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> U.S. 65%
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> England 46%
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> Canada 42%
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> Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received
> treatment within six months:
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> U.S. 93%
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> England 15%
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> Canada 43%
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> Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it
> within six months:
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> U.S. 90%
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> England 15%
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> Canada 43%
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> Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within
> one month:
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> U.S. 77%
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> England 40%
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> Canada 43%
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> Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
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> U.S. 71
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> England 14
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> Canada 18
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> Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in
> “excellent health”:
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> U.S. 12%
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> England 2%
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> Canada 6%
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> I don’t know about you, but I don’t want “Universal Healthcare”
> comparable to England or Canada .
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> Moreover, it was Sen. Harry Reid who said, “Elderly Americans
> must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age.”
(is this a death panel?)
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> SHIP HIM TO CANADA OR ENGLAND !
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> 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.
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> T. Roosevelt…….. 38%
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> Taft…………………40%
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> Wilson …………….52%
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> Harding………………49%
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> Coolidge………….. 48%
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> Hoover…………….. 42%
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> F. Roosevelt……… 50%
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> Truman………………50%
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> Eisenhower……….. 57%
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> Kennedy………….. 30%
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> Johnson……………..47%
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> Nixon………………. 53%
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> Ford………………… 42%
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> Carter……………… 32%
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> Reagan……………….56%
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> GH Bush…………….. 51%
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> Clinton …………….. 39%
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> GW Bush……………. 55%
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> And the winner of the Chicken Dinner is: Obama 8%!!!
Best answer:
Answer by 29 Year Old Virgin
We have the NHS in england and tax payers fund abortion under the guises of “health care” that’s what state sponsored health care turns into, disgusting.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Abortion/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Also a lady on the news today with cancer couldn’t get a drug to save her life as it was “too expensive” for the NHS.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1159506/Life-prolonging-cancer-drugs-banned-cost-much.html
Dentistry isn’t FREE as you would think and its a nightmare finding 1 to take you on his books.
http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1781.aspx?categoryid=74&subcategoryid=742
Did i mention waiting lists and waiting times in hospital? Well they are crazy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7924278/NHS-waiting-lists-rise-after-doctors-hours-cut.html
Superbugs are rampant in state sponsored hospitals here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549722/NHS-superbugs-on-the-rise.html
End of the day the government throws money at it like crazy and at best its a sticking plaster, can use peoples money for insane reasons and tell others to go off and die as their treatment isn’t economically viable.
I imagine you will get something pretty similar.
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The NHS has over 50 years more experience at this than america does as well.
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