John Heneghan; Advanced Maritime Jobs for Minorities – washingtonpost.com

The Washington Post’s Obituary for Dad.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/military.deportation/index.html

They really don’t have a clue, do they?

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Denver Journal; Hoping Third Try Is Right, Mile High City Marks the Spot – New York Times

Hmmmm

One Laptop Per Child — XO Giving

I was just browsing through the World Health Organization’s Statistical Information System (WHOSIS), Lots of interesting information on how many health care professionals there are in different countries around the world.

Just looking at a high level scan of the United States I would suggest that we would need about 2 doctors per 1,000; 10 nurses per K; 1 dentist per K; 1  pharmicist per K; and 15 others (Lab techs, PAs, therapists, etc) per K to provide basic health care in the US.  The chart below is copied from WHOSIS, the US numbers are all from 2000.

I notice that there are almost as many administrators and support staff in the US system as there are professionals.  That seems to be an awfully big overhead to be carrying.

Given a US population of  300,000,000 (300,000 K) today, we are talking about: 600,000 doctors; 3,000,000 nurses; 300,000 dentists; 300,000 pharmacists and 4,500,000 others.  (8.7 Million Health Care Professionals.) (And that’s without all the administrators/support staff. ) That’s looking at ~ 3% of the population to provide basic health care. I wonder how much the numbers might increase to support an aging population as well?

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