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2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance: How did states do during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Jun 16, 2022
  • Description

Every year, the Commonwealth Fund's Scorecard on State Health System Performance uses the latest data available to assess how well the health care system is working in every state. We ask such questions as:

  • Do Americans have good access to health care? Does their health insurance enable them to get the care they need to stay healthy? Are they protected from high out-of-pocket health costs?
  • Are Americans getting the right health care, at the right time, and in the right setting? To what extent are they seeking care from emergency departments or other costly settings instead of visiting a primary care provider? Has health care use and spending gone up or down?
  • How healthy is America? How prevalent are high-risk behaviors like smoking or health conditions like obesity that put people at higher risk for poor health? What are Americans' chances of dying early in life from preventable or treatable causes?

For the 2022 State Scorecard, we added a new area of inquiry:

  • How well has each state responded to and managed the COVID-19 pandemic? With data that generally reflect the nation's experience since 2020, we were able to provide a window on how state health systems have performed as the pandemic was unfolding.

2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance: How did states do during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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