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If you're looking to live a long, healthy life, you might be better off moving to Vietnam than to St. Louis. |
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Wrap: The Missouri Hospital Association released a report ranking Missouri 42nd in statewide health.
The study measured life expectancy contributors like health insurance coverage, preventative care and financial stability.
M-H-A spokesperson Dave Dillon says the biggest setback is the lack of healthcare accessibility.
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| Description: We can really turn those numbers around, but we have to make the decisions, the policy decisions... that drive those numbers. | |
Parts of St. Louis and southeastern Missouri ranked lowest in healthcare accessibility and had life expectancies lower than Third World countries.
Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Hanna Battah.
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If you live in Pemiscot County, expect to live 10 years less than you might if you lived in St. Charles. |
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Wrap: In fact, if you live in Pemiscot County, expect to live less than you might in Iraq, El Salvador or Vietnam.
Missouri Hospital Association ranked the state in the bottom 10 in a U.S. health rankings report.
Association spokesperson Dave Dillon attributes this to a lack of healthcare accessibility, especially in southeastern Missouri and the St. Louis area.
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| Description: Missouri's hospital emergency departments care for 1 uninsured individual every minute of every day... um... that's not good because emergency departments can fix you if you're broken. But, they are not designed for primary care. | |
The report says around 800 thousand Missourians are uninsured.
Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Hanna Battah.