U.S. trails other nations in chronic illness care

Yet another good reason to get fit and lessen your likelihood of entering the Sick Care System.

"Chronically ill Americans are more likely to forgo medical care because of high costs or experience medical errors than patients in other affluent countries, according to a study released on Thursday.

The study comparing the experiences of patients in eight nations reflected poorly on the U.S. health care system as President-elect Barack Obama and his allies work on plans to rein in health costs and extend insurance to more people."

Good thinking. Make a bad system available to more people.

That's one way to gain control over population growth.

This is the kind of thinking that reigns in politics.

It is the kind of thinking that will drive the system and us to ruin.

We get what we deserve when, election cycle after election cycle, we vote folks who whore for our votes into office, instead of people who look us straight in the eye and tell us that we need to change our ways and that government cannot do that for us. (This was a party-neutral comment.)