Report Shows Healthcare Disparities among States — OrlandoSentinel.com
Andrew Zajac
Even as state and federal initiatives have extended a medical safety net beneath children in recent years, more and more adult Americans have been living without insurance coverage compounding the already-serious problems of the healthcare system and fueling sharp disparities in the cost and quality of care across the country.
Those disparities, graphically documents in state-by-state rankings released Wednesday by the non-partisan Commonwealth Fund, underscored one of the biggest challenges in designing a healthcare overhaul: The nation doesn’t have one system and one reality, it has at least 50 each with its own economic, social and demographic characteristics.
Report Shows Healthcare Disparities among States — OrlandoSentinel.com
