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A friend of mine sent this 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%
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%
There is no United Nations International Health Organization and I cannot find any article in the Investors Business Daily that comes anywhere close to siting these numbers. These are probably fiction. Investors Business Daily is famous for saying that Stephen Hawking would be dead if he lived in England, which he does: google it and their reaction. They also published bogus polls numbers regarding doctors support of health care reform Google that as well.
From Snoops.com
I think these stats are fake
And here's why:
The Investor's Business Daily has no article with this data.
There is no such entity as the United Nation's 'International' Health Organization. Presumably the author was attempting to claim the source of the 'data' came from the U.N.'s WORLD Health Organization.
None of these statistics can be gathered from the data on the WHO's website. Especially something as specific as a hip replacement.
The data is seemingly in direct conflict with data on the WHO website/survey.
And my final reason why this must be fake...its plastered all over the right-wing blogosphere being touted as real data. It does in fact have quite a following.
The version I received from my hard right-wing grandfather in law has the reference to the Investor's Business Daily stripped out (only barely) but none of the people forwarding it on and on have bothered to notice that there is no 'International' Health Organization.