According to a new report out by a group known as the Commonwealth Fund, Minnesota ranks 23rd overall in the area of health care for our children. The organization uses indicators such as access, quality, and cost to evaluate the children's health care systems used by each of the states.
While you can make your judgments about what this data actually means, for me this report highlights the need for expanded access to health care for our children. Unfortunately, those efforts have been consistently thwarted by forces more concerned with saving a buck than they are with making sure the highest possible percentage of children are covered.
