Healthcare Varies Drastically From State to State

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Despite all the states in America being part of the same country, healthcare quality from state to state is all over the map. A new study has found that not all states are equal in the quality of healthcare given, and the gap between some is larger than you might think.

For example, According to HealthDay.com, “premature death rates (before age 75) from conditions that might have been prevented with appropriate medical care were 50 percent lower in states such as Minnesota, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming and Alaska than in the District of Columbia and states with the highest premature death rates -- Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. In the first five states, average death rates were 74.1 per 100,000 people, compared to 141.7 per 100,000 people in the other four states and the District of Columbia.”

The report card of state healthcare was recently published in the CommonWealth Fund. Despite spending the most on healthcare, the Common Wealth Fund ranked the United States 6 out of 6 among western nations in national healthcare. The newest instalment of the study takes it down to a state level. The report ranked states on 32 indicators and were put into five categories: access, quality, potentially avoidable use of hospitals and costs of care, equity, and ability to live long and healthy lives.

According to Karen Davis the president of the Common Wealth Fund, “The states scorecard is closer to home. Where you live really matters in terms of your experience with the American health-care system. The gaps from state to state add up to real lives and real dollars."

So who ranked the highest? According to the article, “The top five states overall were Hawaii, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, all of which have high rates of health insurance -- nearly 90 percent of working-age adults. By contrast, in the five lowest-ranged states -- Nevada, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma -- only 70 percent to 78 percent of adults are insured.”

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