{"id":24586,"date":"2025-07-02T08:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24586"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:11:35","slug":"the-best-and-worst-states-for-healthcare-and-why-its-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24586","title":{"rendered":"The best and worst states for healthcare \u2014 and why it\u2019s complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Molly Gamble for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new national analysis offers a nuanced view of how healthcare access, affordability, treatment quality and hospital use intersect across the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201c2025 Scorecard on State Health System Performance\u201d from Commonwealth Fund evaluates all 50 states and the District of Columbia using 50 indicators spanning healthcare access and affordability, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, health outcomes, healthy behaviors, and equity. Most of the data reflects performance in 2023.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/rankings-and-ratings\/the-best-and-worst-states-for-healthcare-and-why-its-complicated\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/rankings-and-ratings\/the-best-and-worst-states-for-healthcare-and-why-its-complicated\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13869\" style=\"width:147px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Molly Gamble for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A new national analysis offers a nuanced view of how healthcare access, affordability,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[303,723,385,238],"class_list":["post-24586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare-access","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24587,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586\/revisions\/24587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}