In order to decide how to improve the system and how best
to use your own healthcare, it helps to know how good (or bad) the system is in
your state as compared to other states.
What you should know about healthcare
Choosing a healthcare provider isn’t just about finding one that works best for your needs.Factors such as where you live, whether or not you have insurance, and even where family members go for medical care all factor into your choice of doctor.
With so much at stake, it’s important to
take a look at which states might be better or worse than others based on how
they treat their residents—at least from a healthcare standpoint. Here are some
of our findings: What are we talking about?
The United States Department of Health & Human Services
(HHS) has published data comparing state health rankings since 1990. These
rankings include information like access to healthcare providers, health
behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors related to health
outcomes, quality of life indicators like physical environment, community
resources available to individuals with disabilities, etc. We used these
rankings as our primary source for determining overall state health scores.
Rankings for the best states
#1 Virginia, #2 South Dakota, #3 Hawaii, #4 Maine, and #5
Minnesota. Rankings for the worst states: #46 Nevada, #47 Louisiana, #48 New
Jersey, #49 New York and Alaska. This ranking is based on several factors that
impact your health care experience—such as number of hospitals per capita,
doctors per capita, health insurance coverage rates and more. Here’s a
breakdown of some of these categories: #1 State with best healthcare outcomes:
Vermont—Vermont has an obesity rate at just 19%, meaning its residents are
generally healthy compared to other states. Additionally, its percentage of
uninsured people is at 8%, one of the lowest rates nationwide.
These are often states that didn’t provide enough data for these rankings. To avoid punishing states for data unavailable, WalletHub used a state’s worst score or average across four key dimensions to determine its overall rank.
These dimensions include health care accessibility, which looked
at providers per capita; affordability, which examined the cost of living and
insurance rates; outcomes; and quality of life. Each state was given a rank
with 1 being best and 50 being worst. Those ranks were then averaged together
to create an overall ranking. Data was provided by County Health Rankings &
Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program.
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