Big coincidence all the red is in red states and counties. Hrmmmmm...
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This is because the higher values are denoted by a redder color, causing the states with the most red to be red in appearance
Thanks for breaking it down, doctor
Yeah but this doesn't explain the urine colored states.
Thank you. My color-blind mind could not comprehend this.
Overlay with the poorest and least educated and you may find even more surprising 'coincidences'!
better red and dead, apparently...
And how many times have the Republicans tried to abolish that program?
I live in Minnesota and I have health insurance through my employer and I do not qualify for this program. It costs me over $200 just to walk in the door of the clinic. I recently had to get a CT scan and it cost me $1800. A fucking covid test cost $135, even though the state will mail them to me for free.
I don't make that much money. I can barely afford these bills. I'm a proud Minnesotan, but this post makes it seem like our healthcare is so much better than every other state, and I'm here to tell you that it most definitely is not
This is more a problem with your employers health insurance. Yes Minnesota healthcare is not perfect but if you're very low income, it's better than other states. MNsure certainly helped me a bit and provided free healthcare for awhile.
So the bar was under the ground and it seems that Minnesota raised the bar to about 2 inches above ground. Not great, but better.
Yeah, that was my experience with employer-run healthcare in general before I left to start my own business. I was paying $200 monthly for a terrible, high-copay situation like that from my last employer when I broke my knee. My friend with zero insurance had the same injury so I went to his doctor and surgeon. Afterwords we compared our total bills and mine was barely any less than his cash-only bill. I felt robbed.
So does Massachusetts
Honestly all the NE states look pretty good.
Except Maine... Wtf Maine.
Maine is New England's Alabama.
I'd always heard New Hampshire referred to as "the south of the north," but on this map, at least, it looks downright heavenly compared to Maine.
Poor people can’t afford housing in NH, so they go to Maine. Or die.
Maine is rural and it feels like it's sometimes trending libertarian at times.
Maine has the oldest demographic of any state and a median income significantly lower than any other nearby state.
Spread the news!
It could start at the county level and move its way up.
But the government is literally incapable of ever doing anything right! We made sure of it! How is this possible!!
No this is a failure of government, their job is to make poor people's/ minority's lives harder and keep them beaten down /s
As a citizen of a civilized country: What is this "medical debt" Americans keep talking about?
It's how they punish us poor people for surviving instead of dying off like good little wage slaves.
Doesn't every state have a public program for low income families? That's literally what Medicaid is, I believe?
Some places are totally just not doing it right
Depends on the state, mine only started participating in the Medicaid expansion program a year or two ago. Here low income families can have functional Medicaid coverage until you're 18, then you get put on a limited care program that really only covers emergent care. However, both the child and adult programs recently got semi-privatized. Now the sate pays BCBS and Humana to run the Medicaid program for the state, letting them determine what coverage is like.
So even in southern states where there is a Medicaid program, the adults rarely have coverage for everyday healthcare needs. It's mainly there to make sure there's some way to reimburse emergent care facilities.
Some places are totally just not doing it right
Repugnantcans: "It's not that we don't know how to govern, it's just that government is inherently bad compared to the free market"
Also known as: starving the beast
It seems like it's up to the state to set the barrier for entry to their Medicaid system. In my state, the limit was <$24k yearly income, and I think that's gone up since I last looked. In a friend's state, it was <$12k to qualify, which is a lot harder to survive on.
It's almost like the people of many states decided to shoot their own foot off... with no insurance.
Gee... I wonder if there's a voting pattern we could discern from this map.
The actual fuck Wyoming?
I mean, that's like eight people. Pretty easy for one guy with lousy insurance to throw off the results.
Wait, I thought most states did? Meant for the really low income people on food stamps and cash assistance?
Also, Jesus Christ Wyoming.
What's the square guy in top left that's almost completely red?
Wyoming
Why not oming?
So many reasons, medical debt being one of them. Yellowstone is pretty, though.
I don't believe for one second that the central valley in California isn't in the top tier. They're probably just not counting half the workforce there.
Anyone know what’s going on in that one red triangle in Pennsylvania? I’m not familiar with that part of PA and nothing stands out on a map
Aside from that, all of the northeast except Maine showing well.
That's Franklin County.
Described as a Republican Party Stronghold, only three Democratic Party candidates for president managed to win the county since 1880. The most recent Dem candidate to win the county was LBJ.
There's lots of counties in PA that are deep red but don't have that amount of medical debt. Is Franklin County riddled with cancer or something?
In the US, people regularly don't receive the medical attention they need because they can't afford to. The European mind cannot comprehend this.