Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Useless Information
I love to read THE WEEK magazine for no other reason than for its little statistical blurbs peppered throughout each issue.
This weeks examples are:
-28% of all Medicare costs go toward the care of patients in the last year of life.
At least.
-Wal-Mart generated a profit of 10.3 billion in the last fiscal year. That breaks down to almost $20,000 a minute.
I figure that all I spend in Wally world each year would make-up only 20 seconds worth of their profit.
-The average life expectancy in the U.S. continues to climb. Women, on average, lived to 80.1 years in 2003, according to the CDC. Men averaged 74.5 years
How can that be, we don't have national healthcare?
Americans spend $11 billion a year on lingerie and women's underwear.
No comment.
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This weeks examples are:
-28% of all Medicare costs go toward the care of patients in the last year of life.
At least.
-Wal-Mart generated a profit of 10.3 billion in the last fiscal year. That breaks down to almost $20,000 a minute.
I figure that all I spend in Wally world each year would make-up only 20 seconds worth of their profit.
-The average life expectancy in the U.S. continues to climb. Women, on average, lived to 80.1 years in 2003, according to the CDC. Men averaged 74.5 years
How can that be, we don't have national healthcare?
Americans spend $11 billion a year on lingerie and women's underwear.
No comment.
# posted by Joe Florida @ 11:47 AM 
