This week’s graphic highlights a new report from The Commonwealth Fund with data on state-by-state health performance. The good news is that all states have seen a drop in their uninsured rate between 2013 and 2023, and the gap between the most- and least-insured states is shrinking. Texas had the highest uninsured rate in both years, but its rate dropped by 27.8%. However, there remains significant variation in preventable deaths by state. The report ranks states on 50 measures of healthcare access and affordability, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, health outcomes and healthy behaviors, and other factors. It finds that the infant mortality rate worsened in 20 states between 2018 and 2022, with considerable variation across states. This snapshot-in-time report calls for targeted, coordinated federal and state policies to raise health system performance across the nation.
