April 24, 2019
Raising a child in America is expensive, costing the average parent over $230,000, with healthcare accounting for a big chunk of the bill, Adam McCann on the site, WalletHub, reports.
While around 95 percent of children ages 0-18 have health insurance, the high coverage rate hasn’t translated to lower health costs for parents. For example, writes McCann, out of pocket costs for patients increased by 2.5 percent during 2017 alone, and total spending for individuals aged 0-18 jumped 19.9 percent between 2013 and 2017.
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WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 33 key indicators of cost, quality and access to children’s health care. The data set ranges from share of children aged 0 to 17 years in excellent or very good health to pediatricians and family doctors per capita.
Click HERE for WalletHub’s findings, expert insight from a panel of researchers and a full description of the survey’s methodology.
Vermont was ranked as the best state for children’s healthcare, with the highest overall score, with Massachusetts, Rhode Island, District of Columbia (technically not a state, of course) and Connecticut rounding out the top five. The worst three states for children’s healthcare, according to this study? Alaska at number 49, Oklahoma at 50 and Mississippi at 51.
