statistics lesson for liberals.
from a friend..
It took me a few minutes to find the original article,.. I had to sift through a ton of DU and others who claimed it wasn't true by imagining fake organizations to attribute the article to instead of doing a few minutes of research to find the real source. .. many including snopes and fact check said the article didn't exist..
it does..
How U.S. Health Care Really Stacks Up
http://news.investors.com/032609-472401-how-us-health-care-really-stacks-up.htm?Ntt=statistics%20United%20Nations%20Health&p=2
and the source they used..
10 Surprising Facts about American Health Care
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649
Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at the Stanford University Medical Center. A version of this article appeared previously in the February 18, 2009, Washington Times.
he of course cites his sources..
(unlike fact check and snopes.. )
Why is it liberals are so afraid of facts?
.
from a friend..
It took me a few minutes to find the original article,.. I had to sift through a ton of DU and others who claimed it wasn't true by imagining fake organizations to attribute the article to instead of doing a few minutes of research to find the real source. .. many including snopes and fact check said the article didn't exist..
it does..
How U.S. Health Care Really Stacks Up
http://news.investors.com/032609-472401-how-us-health-care-really-stacks-up.htm?Ntt=statistics%20United%20Nations%20Health&p=2
and the source they used..
10 Surprising Facts about American Health Care
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649
Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at the Stanford University Medical Center. A version of this article appeared previously in the February 18, 2009, Washington Times.
he of course cites his sources..
(unlike fact check and snopes.. )
A recent "Investor's Business Daily" com article provided very
interesting statistics from a survey by the The National Center for Policy Analysis.
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
The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983.
Why is it liberals are so afraid of facts?
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