Tuesday, May 11, 2004
I wanna be healthy, too!
We all know health care in the US is in dire straits. Daniel DeNoon, a writer for WebMD reports on which states provide the worst healthcare for women.
Most disturbing?
In other words, not one of our 50 states is doing a good job of providing health care for women, and most of them are failing miserably.
I was really upset, too, to discover that 28% of women (more than one in four) in my home state, Texas, don't have health insurance. Yet the Texas lege recently cut funding for the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program. Sad. Sad, sad, sad.
Most disturbing?
"The rankings are based on whether states have adopted 67 'key women's health policies.' The only one of these met by all the states is Medicaid coverage for breast and cervical cancer. Only three states -- New York, California, and Rhode Island -- met more than half of these policy goals. Idaho, South Dakota, and Mississippi met the fewest."
In other words, not one of our 50 states is doing a good job of providing health care for women, and most of them are failing miserably.
I was really upset, too, to discover that 28% of women (more than one in four) in my home state, Texas, don't have health insurance. Yet the Texas lege recently cut funding for the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program. Sad. Sad, sad, sad.
