Fact Based List:

Top 10 States for Health System Equity: Overall Ranking, 2009

  1. Maine (2007 rank: 2 - tied with Vermont)
  2. Vermont (2007 rank: 2 - tied with Maine)
  3. Rhode Island (2007 rank: 3)
  4. New Hampshire (2007 rank: 4)
  5. Delaware (2007 rank: 9)
  6. Connecticut (2007 rank: 6 - tied with Pennsylvania and Hawaii)
  7. Massachusetts (2007 rank: 1)
  8. Pennsylvania (2007 rank: 6 - tied with Connecticut and Hawaii)
  9. Iowa (2007 rank: 15)
  10. Hawaii (2007 rank: 6 - tied with Pennsylvania and Connecticut)

Source: The Commonwealth Fund
Source URL: http://datacenter.commonwealthfund.org/#ind=35/sc=1