Rates of deaths from suicides, drug overdoses, and alcohol have reached an all-time high in the U.S., but some states have been hit far harder than others, according to one report.
Beyond these death rates, the report looked at 44 other factors that influence a population's health to determine each state's ranking.
The states that ranked at the bottom of the list all had the highest rates of residents without health care coverage. In 2017, five of the 17 states that had not expanded access to Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act had the highest rates of uninsured adults.have had stark implications for their uninsured rates," the authors wrote in their report.
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