Texas Health Care by the Numbers

[kurth]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, Texas has one of the "worst records" of preventative health care for women in the entire nation. Here are few of the low-lights:

• Texas ranks No. 52 among the states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for the number of women who have health insurance coverage.

• Texas ranks No. 49 among the states for the number of women who have had a mammogram (important in diagnosing breast cancer) in the past two years.

• Texas ranks No. 46 among the states for the number of women who have had a pap smear (crucial for diagnosing cervical cancer) in the past three years.

• Texas ranks No. 5 in the number of teen pregnancies.*

• Texas ranks No. 2 in the number of babies born to teen mothers.*

Sources: August 2004 CDC report based on stats for the years 2000-2002 and *February 2004 data from the Alan Guttmacher Institute

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2006-01-27/pols_feature2.html

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[hobbit709]

1. It's things like this that

make me want to:puke: every time I see goodhair in one if his ads.

[RufusEarl]

2. Thanks for the post,

I'll send this out ASAP.

[justabob]

3. you can pick any issue at all

and the numbers would be exactly the same, or very close, in Texas. It is a disgrace.... no tax no service state. It is very difficult to live here unless you have a money tree.

[prolesunited]

4. That's their plan for America

if you don't have money, you don't matter and might as well die. If God loved you and you were one of his chosen ones, you would be rich like them.