Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Rhode Island & District Of Columbia Have The Best Health Care System Performance In Commonwealth Fund Ranking

Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia have the best health care system performance, according to a new ranking by The Commonwealth Fund. The lowest-ranked states are Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and West Virginia. Performance was assessed on 50 measures grouped into six domains, including health care access and affordability, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, health outcomes and healthy behaviors, income disparity, and equity.

The key findings highlighted in the report announcement were as follows:

The share of working-age adults without health insurance fell from 20.4% in 2013 to 11 . . .