1. West Virginia
West Virginia has the worst health care in the nation with a score of 1.0 out of 100. Despite ranking sixth in accessibility, West Virginia has the worst health outcomes of any state.
Its residents have a high rate of unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, and a lack of physical activity, which leads to chronic illnesses and those poor health outcomes that we were talking about earlier.
West Virginia is the state with the highest diabetes mortality rate, with 41.3 deaths per 100,000 residents. Also, this state has the highest rates of preventable deaths, with 125.6 deaths per 100,000 residents.
West Virginia has the second-least affordable health care, being in 49th place right before Vermont, which is in 50th place. The average cost of private health insurance is $8,546 per person, making West Virginia the state with the most expensive healthcare in the entire United States.
