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[Jersey Boss]

Healthcare here is good, if you have coverage. The metrics that are so bad are for diabetes, obesity, cardiac disease. It is more about how people live unhealthy lives and can't afford medical help, than it is about the help itself. Rural healthcare options really pull Oklahoma's overall healthcare ratings down so far. Rural healthcare options are abysmal.

Feel free to show any data that healtcare in Oklahoma is good compared to other states. Frankly I don't buy it.

[Rover]

Feel free to show any data that healtcare in Oklahoma is good compared to other states. Frankly I don't buy it.

Please read what I said. There is really good healthcare here, but not all accessible by everyone. And OK is VERY unhealthy as we have a high percentage of obese and inactive people without health insurance - Too many cheeseburgers and fries, too little exercise. Low income results in poor nutrition. Lack of education results in poor nutritional habits. Scarcity of Drs. in rural OK greatly adds to the scarcity of healthcare ratings. Politicians set healthcare policies for the state, not medical specialists.

[Jersey Boss]

Please read what I said. There is really good healthcare here, but not all accessible by everyone. And OK is VERY unhealthy as we have a high percentage of obese and inactive people without health insurance - Too many cheeseburgers and fries, too little exercise. Low income results in poor nutrition. Lack of education results in poor nutritional habits. Scarcity of Drs. in rural OK greatly adds to the scarcity of healthcare ratings. Politicians set healthcare policies for the state, not medical specialists.

I read what you said and you are coflating healthcare with disease. With no data either. How does Oklahoma fare in comparing PCP's per capita? Specialty hospitals? Hospital beds? How do OKC and Tulsa compare to Indianapolis? Louisville? Etc. Compare among top 30 metros and show me Oklahoma cities are in top 30%, which would be considered "good" . OKC metro is what top 20 population wise? Compare OKC to the top 30 metros.

[oklip955]

As far as insurance rates go, Florida has issues as well as California. Yes without health insurance and/or living in a rural area, health care is not good. i know people in other states that live in relatively rural areas and no not poor states that tell me hospitals in there area are closing up. Its not just an Oklahoma issue. i am saying that Okc/Tulsa might be a good fit for some folks that are retired, I am not say it is for poor retirees.