Health care - when ranked against other states, why is Texas ranked 51st?

Friday, 09 October 2009 15:00

A report issued in October 2009 by the Commonwealth Foundation, a private organization founded in 1918, ranks the states in healthcare against achievable benchmarks.

Vermont, Hawaii, Iowa or Minnesota deliver best.  Texas not so good.  Overall we rank 46^th.

Rankings by criteria

Access:  #51 (The District of Columbia is included in the tables.)
Prevention and treatment:  #43
Available Hospital use and cost:  #42
Equity:  #51 (Race, children, nursing homes, etc.)
Healthy lives: #21  (incident of smoking, suicide, breast cancer etc.)

Tables showing state rankings and how Texas fares in the 38 criteria that create the broader ratings are attached.

Attachments:

09 10 States by health quality Commonwealth.gif	86 Kb
09 10 Commonwealth Group - Texas_combined_tables_v2.pdf	673 Kb
09 10 Health - Commonwealth report.doc	143 Kb

So who is the Lewin Group?

Sunday, 16 August 2009 13:15

Statistics from the The Lewin Group are frequently quoted by opponents of the Obama Administrationhealth insurance reform.  So who is the Lewin Group?  It’s owned by United Healthcare, an intensely profitable insurance company that controls aspects of healthcare for 60 million Americans and also distributes pharmaceuticals to 10 million through its Prescription Solutions division.

From the Lewin Group ‘About Us’ page on their website.
The Lewin Group is an Ingenix company. Ingenix, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, was founded in 1996 to develop, acquire and integrate the world's best-in-class health care information technology capabilities.

Read more: So who is the Lewin Group?

How Texas health statistics compare with other States

Sunday, 09 August 2009 13:33

Click on the picture to read the report.

It was prepared for the Texas State Senate and uses data compiled by various State agencies and national sources such as the Center for Disease control.