Nevada
Health Policy rankings
| Health indicators | Rank |
Population | 2,414,581 |
| Number of insurance mandates | 49 |
| Death rate per 100,000 | 877.9 |
| Percent of adults overweight or obese | 56.20% |
| Percent of adults who have visited a dentist in the last 12 months | 64.50% |
| Number of births (2004) | 35,200 |
| Ranking public policy | Rank |
| Overall health ownership rank | 23 |
| Government health care rank | 2 |
| Private health insurance rank | 36 |
| Medical tort rank | 12 |
| Provider burden of regulation rank | 44 |
Sources
*Policy ranks are from the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, published by the Pacific Research Institute.
*Health indicators are from State Health Facts, a service of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
*Number of insurance mandates comes from Health Insurance Mandates in the States 2007 (PDF), a publication of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008Channel Your Inner AC/DCNevada moving towards socialized medicine By John LaPlanteCategories: NevadaIf you ever want to live like a rock star, you might want to move to Nevada. The Nevada Policy Research Institute says that the state is On the road to health care hell. Speaking of recent scandals in the health care sector in Nevada, the institute's Steven Miller says "While an embarrassed Silver State now finds itself in the national spotlight, the main engines driving degradation of health-care quality are actually national. Moreover, they have been in place, gathering increasing momentum, for a very long time."
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