States Don’t Make the Grade
As the health care debate rages on, it’s important to understand the present conditions of the health care system. The National Women’s Law Center has recently published an eye-opening report on the current health care needs of women in all of the fifty states. The report is a basic state-by-state report card that grades states on their ability (or inability) to reach the Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 health objectives set by the U.S. Department of Health.
Unfortunately the nation is so far behind in the Healthy People objectives and other related goals, that it received an overall grade of unsatisfactory. So why is our nation wearing the dunce cap? Check it out on the National Women’s Law Center’s website.
- Marika Hinds