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Healthcare Data Compare Healthcare Grade of Maryland to Florida
Healthcare grades: The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund grades all states on access to healthcare, avoidable hospital use and costs, healthy lives, and prevention and treatment. For example, Pennsylvania ranks 12 on access: nearly
percent of nonelderly adult patients are insured and 92% of children. Florida has around 74% and Maryland around 83% of adults insured and 82 and 91% of children, approximately. In Pennsylvania, 86% of at-risk adults have had a checkup within two years versus 87 and 88% in Florida and Maryland respectively; 90% of patients in PA have not had to forego seeing a physician within the last two years because of cost versus 84% in Florida and 89% in Maryland (approximately). The low rates of insurance coverage in Florida reflect higher unemployment and poverty rates, combined with a higher percentage of workers who labor part-time and do not receive employer-provided insurance, the predominant method of coverage in the U.S. Greater concerns about costs of going to a physician in Florida reflect how a lack of insurance can act as a deterrent to going to the doctor.
In terms of prevention and care, interestingly enough, Maryland had the highest rates of adults over 50 (49%) who received recommended preventative screening, versus Pennsylvania's 43% and Florida's 40%, and these who received vaccinations in 2009, Maryland's rate was not available but the extant data suggested almost half of children received all of the suggested vaccinations, versus 47 (PA) and 45 (FL) in 2009 (earlier vaccination rates were even lower for these states). Children who received preventative medical and dental visits were 78% (PA) and 75% (MD), but only 64% in Florida. Florida's much lower rates of childhood care could be explained by the fact that the poor seldom have transportation to engage in regular visits to primary caregivers (even pediatricians), although its low rates of coverage of the elderly are somewhat surprising, given the high rates of elderly persons who live in the state.
Preventative care as provided by physicians, of course, is only part of the 'equation' of health: not smoking and preventing obesity are also important. In Florida, 33% of all children…
Reference
State scorecard. (2011). Maps and Data. Retrieved September 26, 2011 at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Maps-and-Data/State-Data-Center/State-Scorecard.aspx
All figures are rounded up or down, based upon the available data
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