The difference between the ethics from private sector employment and public sector employment are vast. While researching information in this regard, factors took me in an additional direction. We therefore have two important items to address in this article. This Has to do with Health Care especially in light of the “Affordable Health Care Art.” The second took me to the beginning of the 20th Century for a solid look at available data regarding the individuals our Presidents’ had as advisors and what their histories were. Needless to say I was intrigues and then astounded by the information discovered. They saying is true . . . . “Those who do not LEARN from HISTORY are destined to repeat it.”

I.  HEALTH CARE

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:

Nation       %
U.S.          65%
England   46%
Canada     42%

Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:

Nation      %
U.S.          93%
Canada    43%
England   15%

Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:

Nation       %
U.S.          90%
Canada    43%
England   15%

Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:

Nation       %
U.S.          77%
Canada   43%
England  40%

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:

Nation       %
U.S.          71%
Canada   18%
England   14%

Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in “excellent health”:

Nation      %
U.S.          12%
Canada     6%
England    2%

And now for the last statistic:

National Health Insurance (NHI)

Nation       NHI
U.S.           NO
England    Yes
Canada     Yes

Check this last set of statistics!!

II.  POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS  OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORS

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.

26. Roosevelt                            38%

27. Taft                                 40%

28. Wilson                               52%

29. Harding                              49%

30. Coolidge                             48%

31. Hoover                               42%

32. F. Roosevelt                         50%

33. Truman                               50%

34. Eisenhower                           57%

35. Kennedy                              30%

36. L. B. Johnson                        47%

37. Nixon                                53%

38. Ford                                  42%

39. Carter                                32%

40. Reagan                                56%

41. G.H.W. Bush                           51%

42. Clinton                               39%

43. G.W. Bush                             55%

44. 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.