Vermont

Health Policy rankings

Health Indicators	Rank
Population	617,728
Number of insurance mandates	26
Death rate per 100,000	730.9
Percent of adults overweight or obese	54.20%
Percent of adults who have visited a dentist in the last 12 months	74.30%
Number of births (2004)	6,599

Ranking Public Policy	Rank
Overall health ownership rank	49
Government health care rank	39
Private health insurance rank	42
Medical tort rank	50
Provider burden of regulation rank	25

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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Monday, November 19, 2007

Replace the State Hospital with Community Care

By John LaPlante

Categories: Vermont

Some mental hospitals are great examples of life in a state-run health care system: A large employment system that also happens to offer some amount of care, often in appalling conditions.

Vermont's Ethan Allen Institute recommends that the state replace the Vermont State Hospital for the Insane (yes, that's its name) with community-based programs. Not only will this save money that would be spent on a new building (over $100 million), it offers benefits to patients.

You can read the executive summary (PDF) or full report (PDF).

posted by John LaPlante
11:13 am
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Index of Health Care Ownership is Out! Every State Ranked!

Utah Top of the List, New York Bottom of the Barrel on 24 Measures

By John R. Graham

Categories: Alabama, Delaware, Maine, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Utah, Vermont

PRI has released the Index of Health Ownership, which uses 24 variables to rank all the states according to their residents' freedom from undue government interference in health care.

Top 5: Utah, Nebraska, Delaware, North Dakota, Alabama

Bottom 5: New York, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maine

I know SPN wants to collaborate in promoting this effort and I'll be in touch with John LaPlante on that. Any SPN members who want more color or would like me to speak in their state please contact me. This is something we intend to repeat periodically, hopefully annually.

Go forth and own your health care!