Political Humor

This is because the higher values are denoted by a redder color, causing the states with the most red to be red in appearance

Overlay with the poorest and least educated and you may find even more surprising 'coincidences'!

better red and dead, apparently...

Turns out "better health care" is a pretty low bar in the US.

This is more a problem with your employers health insurance. Yes Minnesota healthcare is not perfect but if you're very low income, it's better than other states. MNsure certainly helped me a bit and provided free healthcare for awhile.

So the bar was under the ground and it seems that Minnesota raised the bar to about 2 inches above ground. Not great, but better.

Yeah, that was my experience with employer-run healthcare in general before I left to start my own business. I was paying $200 monthly for a terrible, high-copay situation like that from my last employer when I broke my knee. My friend with zero insurance had the same injury so I went to his doctor and surgeon. Afterwords we compared our total bills and mine was barely any less than his cash-only bill. I felt robbed.

Honestly all the NE states look pretty good.

Except Maine... Wtf Maine.

No this is a failure of government, their job is to make poor people's/ minority's lives harder and keep them beaten down /s

It's how they punish us poor people for surviving instead of dying off like good little wage slaves.

it's not very nice to shit-talk victims of exploitation

Haha... I'm in Europe and have health insurance debt ...

Depends on the state, mine only started participating in the Medicaid expansion program a year or two ago. Here low income families can have functional Medicaid coverage until you're 18, then you get put on a limited care program that really only covers emergent care. However, both the child and adult programs recently got semi-privatized. Now the sate pays BCBS and Humana to run the Medicaid program for the state, letting them determine what coverage is like.

So even in southern states where there is a Medicaid program, the adults rarely have coverage for everyday healthcare needs. It's mainly there to make sure there's some way to reimburse emergent care facilities.

Some places are totally just not doing it right

Repugnantcans: "It's not that we don't know how to govern, it's just that government is inherently bad compared to the free market"

It seems like it's up to the state to set the barrier for entry to their Medicaid system. In my state, the limit was <$24k yearly income, and I think that's gone up since I last looked. In a friend's state, it was <$12k to qualify, which is a lot harder to survive on.

I mean, that's like eight people. Pretty easy for one guy with lousy insurance to throw off the results.

Wyoming

That's Franklin County.

Described as a Republican Party Stronghold, only three Democratic Party candidates for president managed to win the county since 1880. The most recent Dem candidate to win the county was LBJ.