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Date Posted: 12:46:18 07/18/07 Wed In reply to: Duncan7 's message, "Re: Duncan" on 11:17:06 07/18/07 Wed most people who have worked at a civil service job are. ANd it appears you do not have to worry about paying for anyones health care in Indiana as they are about 39th on the list of health care performance . Font SizeA A A How States Rank on Health Care Hawaii Is First, Oklahoma and Mississippi Are Last on Foundation's First State Scorecard on Health Care By Miranda Hitti WebMD Medical NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MDJune 13, 2007 -- Hawaii leads and Oklahoma lags on a new state scorecard about health system performance. The scorecard is the first of its kind from the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation focused on health care. The Commonwealth Fund rated states based on 32 indicators, including access, quality, cost, insurance, preventive care, potentially avoidable hospital visits, and premature death (death before age 75). The top five states in order are Hawaii, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. The bottom five states are Nevada, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. A full list of state rankings follows later in this article. Wide Range The top-rated states scored two to three times higher than the lowest-ranked states. "Where you live really matters in terms of your experience with the American health care system," Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis told reporters at a news conference. "The wide variation and gaps between leading and lagging states add up to substantial human and economic cost for the nation," says Cathy Schoen, the Commonwealth Fund's senior vice president for research and evaluation. Schoen says that if all states equaled the top-rated states, there would be 90,000 fewer premature deaths before age 75 from conditions such as diabetes, infection, respiratory disease, and treatable cancers. In addition, 22 million more adults and children would be insured, cutting U.S. uninsured rates in half. Room for Improvement 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." State Rankings Here is the list of how the states and Washington, D.C., ranked overall. States with the same ranking are listed together. Hawaii Iowa New Hampshire, Vermont Maine Rhode Island Connecticut Massachusetts Wisconsin South Dakota Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota Delaware Pennsylvania Michigan Montana, Washington Maryland Kansas Wyoming Colorado, New York Ohio, Utah Alaska, Arizona, New Jersey Virginia Idaho, North Carolina Washington, D.C. South Carolina Oregon New Mexico Illinois Missouri Indiana California Tennessee Alabama Georgia Florida West Virginia Kentucky Louisiana, Nevada Arkansas Texas Mississippi, Oklahoma [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: Great article Bev! | L. | 13:17:01 07/18/07 Wed |
| Re: Are you at the present time on any gov't funded health care program? | Duncan7 | 08:51:05 07/19/07 Thu |
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