Several commenters asked what all this means for the health spending: does higher healthcare spending translate into better health status? Thank you for another study this week, this one from the United Health Foundation, we have the answers. Ranking the results of health measuring 23 in States including the level of smoking, obesity, hospitalized can be prevented and cardiovascular death.
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The map has a fair amount of overlap: The Northeast tend to spend more on health and see better results than the rest of the country. Southern countries that spend less also seemed to get lesser-quality care.
But there are some interesting exceptions here: Utah has the lowest per person spending on health care, but managed to have the best result of 9th in the country. Vermont nabs top spot in health outcomes, despite spending more than $ 2,000 less per person from Massachusetts neighbors. Hawaii also spent relatively less and still cracked the top five States in the quality. Alaska, meanwhile, spends a lot of
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