A health insurance advocate group, Florida Health Insurance Web, reports more bad news for Florida residents. Florida has hit a new low, ranked close to the bottom of a new national survey on healthcare; just a spot above Oklahoma. The first-ever state-by-state health system report focused on children’s health care and finds Florida’s kids have [...]

A new report says Vermont’s the second-best place in America to raise children, even if it does have high health care costs.
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The report, by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based foundation that supports health policy research, compared children’s health in the states and concluded that Vermont’s just behind Iowa in healthiest state [...]

Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]

States where restraints were least frequently used were Nebraska, 1.3 percent; and Iowa, Kansas and Maine, 2 percent. The nursing home data was part of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report that compares states on numerous health issues.Mary Jean Koren, assistant vice president at The Commonwealth Fund, a research group, said that changes [...]

The study led by Darrell Gaskin, health economist in the University of Maryland’s department of African American Studies, appears in the March 11 issue of Health Affairs. The study of 1841 hospitals in 13 states compares the quality of treatment for blacks, Hispanics and Asians to that of whites over a broad range of services. [...]