Preventable Illness at Core of U.S. Health Costs

ABC News just can't seem to get it right.

This is the network owned by the mouse (Disney) that gives voice to some of the worst sick care offenders there are, IMHO.

Similar to Orwell's "Animal Farm," the pig is in charge.

Trickling down from Oprah are, inter alia: Dr. Phil, Mehmet Oz, David Katz and Jorge Cruise.

Dangerous persons all, IMHO.

Now ABC/Mouse has found a fraction of a testicle and offers this piece which cannot get around to saying what is and has clearly been true for years:

The high cost of sick care is our own fault. We have seen the enemy and it is us.

What else could possibly happen when we overeat ourselves into sizes larger than zoo animals and require heavy machinery to help us when we've fallen down and can't get up?

Results, in no small part, the fault of ABC/Mouse and other media companies, IMHO.

Look at this equivocation:

"...it may be Americans' own habits that are driving health care costs in the United States."

and:

"...the study in this week's issue of the journal Health Affairs suggests that Americans' obesity and smoking habits may be partly to blame, and may be costing Americans $100 billion to $150 billion per year."

"May"? "Suggests"?

Nothing could be clearer.

And following the weight loss advice of a pig and her anointed experts foreseeably resulted in a nation of pigs.

Costly pigs.

But the biggest boondoggle is yet to come.

It is sick care reform.

The system is in large part responsible for its own failures, with a weight loss industry that fails and then kills its followers.

Fueling it with more money will only accelerate it.

Plus it will never work.

Here’s why.

Suppose we all drove Yugos (or, more accurately, Airstreams with Yugo engines in them).

Suppose we were overwhelmed by the number of cars needing repair.

We have a choice.

We can increase the number of repair shops.

Or we can improve the quality of the cars entering the repair system and decrease the number of vehicles needing repair.

I submit the latter is the better approach.

If we do the former, we will always be playing catch-up as more and more vehicles are sold, operated and repaired.

If we do the latter, we will be ahead of the curve as fewer and fewer vehicles break down and are in need of repair.

Take control of your body, take control of sick care expenditures and sever your ties with the experts.

They are your killers and thieves, to boot, IMHO.