Vermont the state w/ the public option is ranked # 1

[Botany]

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2009/Oct/2009-State-Scorecard.aspx

Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance, 2009
October 8, 2009
Author(s): Douglas McCarthy, M.B.A., Sabrina K. H. How, M.P.A. and Cathy Schoen, M.S., The Commonwealth Fund
Joel C. Cantor, Sc.D., and Dina Belloff, M.A., Rutgers University Center for State Health Policy
On behalf of the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System

Overview
Focused on identifying opportunities to improve, The Commonwealth Fund's State Scorecard on Health System Performance assesses states’ performance on health care relative to achievable benchmarks for 38 indicators of access, quality, costs, and health outcomes. The 2009 State Scorecard paints a picture of health care systems under stress, with deteriorating health insurance coverage for adults and rising health care costs. On a positive note, there were gains in children's coverage as a result of national reforms, and improvement in some measures of hospital and nursing home care following federal efforts to publicly report quality data. The scorecard highlights persistent wide variation in performance across states and continued evidence of poor care coordination. Increasing cost pressures and deterioration in access across the U.S., together with geographic disparities in performance, underscore the urgent need for comprehensive national reforms to ensure access, change the trajectory of costs, and enhance value.


http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Charts-and-Maps/State-Scorecard-2009.aspx

link to map ..... drag pointer across map to see where each state ranked

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Thnanx to DUer Ardent15 for posting this study

[drm604]

1. Vermont has a public option?

I wasn't aware of that. Is it available to any Vermonter who wants it?

[Botany]

2. Vermont has found a way to cover just about everybody .... link

http://healthvermont.gov/family/insurance/index.aspx

That damn Dr. Governor Dean :rofl:

[drm604]

4. There seem to be a number of restrictions.

You have to be uninsured for at least 12 months? What's someone supposed to do for those twelve months if they have health issues?

[cali]

5. yeah, that's the part I don't get.

I was lucky that I had no health issues for that 12 month period.

[cali]

3. pretty much. I'm covered under Catamount

and it's pretty good. I have no complaints.

[drm604]

6. Never mind.

You answered this question in another post.