Rhode Island
Health Policy rankings
| Health indicators | Rank |
Population | 1,052,567 |
| Number of insurance mandates | 43 |
| Death rate per 100,000 | 740.9 |
| Percent of adults overweight or obese | 55.80% |
Percent of adults who have visited a dentist in the last 12 months | 78.50% |
Number of births (2004) | 12,779 |
Ranking public policy | Rank |
| Overall health ownership rank | 43 |
| Provider burden of regulation rank | 15 |
| Government health care rank | 33 |
| Private health insurance rank | 33 |
| Medical tort rank | 47 |
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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Government offices
Tuesday, April 29, 2008$17,620 for Family Coverage, at Taxpayer ExpenseBy John LaPlanteCategories: Rhode IslandWondering how you're going to pay for the high cost of insurance? Here's one way: get elected to the Rhode Island legislature. Membership in the part-time body (meeting no more than 6 months this year) earned legislators a salary of $13,089 in 2007. It also brought taxpayer-paid health insurance premiums of $5,810 for individual coverage or $16,233 for family coverage. On July 1 those numbers are going up to $6,305 and $17,620, respectively. Unlike the members of the legislature, other state employees pay a portion of their insurance out of their paychecks. Insurance is simply another form of compensation. But it's clear that legislators have little reason to recognize that truth--or the fact that the policies they enact drive up the cost of insurance--if they can draw on the public purse for their coverage.
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Monday, November 26, 2007Individual Mandates in Rhode IslandBy John LaPlanteCategories: Individual Mandates, Massachusetts, Rhode IslandLt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts (D-Rhode Island) is looking at replicating parts of the Massachusetts plan in the Ocean State. Among the features she likes: the individual mandate.
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