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U.S. Women's Health Care Still Falls Short: Report
Date:10/17/2007

The new report also spotlighted the issue of women's health insurance, and in this area the nation and states are still lacking.

No state met the goal for access to health insurance. Nationwide, 18 percent of women aged 18 to 64 were uninsured. In 2007, five states decreased Medicaid eligibility levels for working parents, making it more difficult for low-income people to get insurance.

The report also found great regional differences in the health status of women. Hawaii had the lowest percentage of obese women (16.7) percent, while Mississippi had the highest percentage (31.5 percent). Utah had the lowest number of women with high blood pressure (17.7 percent), while Mississippi, again, had the worst (34.4 percent). Minnesota had the lowest proportion of women with diabetes (4.3 percent), while West Virginia had the highest (11.1 percent) and Mississippi the second highest (10.6 percent).

"Health disparities are still an enormous problem in the U.S.," Berlin said. "We have made few gains in the time that we have had these report cards. There's not much time remaining before the year 2010 arrives."

More information

View the report at the National Women's Law Center.



SOURCES: Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O., director, Women and Heart Disease, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Oct. 17, 2007, teleconference with Judy Waxman, vice president for health and reproductive rights, National Women's Law Center, Washington, D.C., and Michelle Berlin, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland; Making the Grade for Women's Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card, Oct. 17, 2007


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