The Commonwealth Fund ‘s has done an analysis of health system performance in the 50 states.  States were assessed on 38  indicators, including access to care, quality of care and costs.  See the full report here.

If New York were to improve its performance in each indicator to that of the best state–here’s what we could accomplish:

*source: Crain’s Health Pulse, December 16, 2009.  See full article here.