"Throughout their all-out campaign to stop health care reform, Republican leaders have relied on questionable forecasts from the Lewin Group, a subsidiary of insurer UnitedHealth Group. Now, another study funded by UnitedHealth has some unwelcome news for the GOP braintrust: the red states they represent are the unhealthiest in the nation. Following on the heels of the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 Scorecard of state health care system performance, the United Health Foundation's report is just the latest confirmation that health care is worst where Republicans poll best." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Color me surprised...lol. - Prosey BUTTONS!

Ya'll calm down. People down south don't need no fancy healthcare. - Sparky, lurking

A wild guess: also the most poorly educated? The most hostile to science? The most mired down in religious fundamentalism? - Sean McBride

Obviously Mental Health wasn't taken into account. Utah would be knocked down several slots. States ranked "Happiest to Saddest" Utah is 51st http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... Utah ranked 45th (out of 51) in the Suicide rate http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go.... - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Eh, people die, that's just God's will. =p - ronin

@ronin - Heheh. No, people are just unhappy spending their entire lives preparing for a fairytale afterlife. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Observation: New England states occupy six of the top ten slots. Most of the bottommost slots are occupied by Confederate states, which have a proven track record of misreading history and getting things wrong in a spectacular way. - Sean McBride