The report compiled by Commonwealth Fund examined how the 50 states and Washington, D.C., compare in seven broad health care categories. Texas could do no...
Texas’ showing was more varied across the categories, though the state never managed to crack the top half of the ranking. It fared best in the healthy lives section, coming in at 29th overall and second among four southwestern states. The section measured deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide as well as metrics on smoking and obesity.In income disparity, Texas ranked 45th. In prevention and treatment of disease, 48th.
The scorecard paints a dark portrait of health care in Texas, especially for Black and brown communities, and low-income Texans. Though not included in this report, abortion bans and the future of women’s health shroud the discussion of well-being in Texas, especially with the recent one-year anniversary ofA majority of Texas health indicators saw no change or worsened between 2019 and 2021, the most recent full year of data that Commonwealth Fund used for its rankings.
“By now we know the ways COVID-19 reverberated across all aspects of state health systems, and we still see its effect in this report,” said Jesse Baumgartner, senior research associate at The Commonwealth Fund. “We found large increases in deaths early in life from preventable and treatable causes in all states.”Once again, Texas stood out: Rates of avoidable deaths surged more than 35% here and in Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico.
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