Health Care - How does your state rate?

[ProudDad]

http://www.webmd.com/news/20070613/how-states-rank-on-health-care?ecd=wnl_nal_071307

Of course, none of them come close to Canada, France or England.......


"Every state has room for improvement -- even those leading the scorecard -- notes Schoen, who worked on the scorecard with other experts.

"Each of the top states has some indicators in the bottom half of the state distribution," Schoen says. In other words, though those states may rank highly overall, they're not acing every category in the scorecard.

"Insurance tracked with the states' ratings.

"In general, states that did well in the overall rankings had the lowest rates of uninsured in the nation, and states that did poorly had the highest rates of uninsured in the nation," Schoen says.

"But high ratings didn't always mean high costs.

"Indeed, some states have high quality and lower cost," Schoen says. She adds that "high costs tend to track higher rates of potentially preventable hospital use and 30-day re-admission rates, indicating a need for a focus on prevention and primary care and care coordination."


HR 676 NOW!!!

http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676_2.htm

[Horse with no Name]

1. Gonna post without looking

But being in Texas I bet we are sucking up the bottom somewhere.

[ProudDad]

2. I'm afraid so...

Texas is near the bottom...

Hawai'i is at the top...

[Horse with no Name]

3. I knew it

:(

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Oregon #27

:(

[Nite Owl]

5. NY ranks 20

we can do much better than that!

[Mojorabbit]

6. Florida

at 36 just above west virginia. Why am I not surprised.

[Cleita]

7. Well my state legislature did pass Sheila Kuhl's bill for

single payer universal health in both houses of the legislature, which was promptly vetoes by Governor Groper. And this is before he got elected for a second term. It makes me wonder about the integrity of our votes.

[Hollow Shells]

8. Look at the top ten

Eight of the top ten are blue states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_state_vs._blue_state_divide

[ProudDad]

9. Costa Rica's still got them beat...

Along with 35 other countries...

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

[SeattleGirl]

10. Washington is 16th. Not too bad.

And our governor is working to expand coverage to more children. (Hopefully it will eventually expand to include adults.)