Interesting Gallup Study

As anyone who has seen any bit of the news lately can tell, the current healthcare debate is drawn pretty strongly between party lines. However, a study I found recently on Gallup yielded some interesting results.

The study looks at which states currently have the best healthcare systems in place and which states have the worst healthcare coverage. Surprisingly, the states that have some of the best overall health care coverage are states that lean more to the left in elections. Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and several other left-leaning states yield some of the best healthcare coverage and options in the nation.

On the other end of the spectrum, some of the states with the worst coverage are states that tend to go to Republicans during election cycles. Research has shown that states like Texas, Alaska, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi yield some of the worst healthcare coverage.

What does this study prove?

While there are different economic factors in play in this survey, like the fact that a lot of states on the positive list are some of the more wealthy states and some of the states on the other list are some of the poorer states, I think it is really interesting. It shows how partisan this whole healthcare debate has become. It looks as though if any reform does come, it will be a result of a partisan push, not about what really needs to get done.