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Inequality’s Impact on Health

KPFA - Against the Grain

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Health Care and the Department of Health in Hawaii

The best estimates of the effect of health care on a population in terms of avoidable mortality is on the order of 10%. That is about 10% of health care consumption can really impact health. If we go to our healthiest state, the American state with the longest life expectancy, it's Hawaii. And it has been for quite a while.

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