Why We Need Health Reform
State-by-State Fact Sheets
SOURCE:
AP/Rich Pedroncelli
An emergency room nurse and doctor confer at the University of California-Davis Medical Center. In every state individuals and households are paying more for health care, and state uninsured rates continue to rise.
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Our broken health care system forces families and businesses to struggle with skyrocketing costs and puts millions of Americans at risk of losing the insurance they have now. Below are fact sheets that show how our broken health care system affects people in each state.
State fact sheets
Alaska | Alabama | Arkansas | Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | District of Columbia | Deleware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Iowa | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Massachusetts | Maryland | Maine | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | Mississippi | Montana | North Carolina | North Dakota | Nebraska | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | Nevada | New York | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pensylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Virginia | Vermont | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia | Wyoming
See also:
- Medical Debt: Is Our Health Care System Bankrupting Americans? by Elizabeth Edwards
- Health Care Premiums Run Amok: The Cost of Doing Nothing About the Health Care Crisis by David M. Cutler
- Too Sick for Health Care: How Insurers Limit and Deny Care in the Individual Health Insurance Market by Peter Harbage
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