Connecticut ranked seventh nationally in a study analyzing data on healthcare access, affordability and quality across all 50 states.
The top state for healthcare access was Maryland. Texas ranked last.
SmartAsset, a financial technology company that provides advice on personal finance decisions, ranked states on six metrics.
Connecticut ranks in the top 10 for all three measures of insurance coverage that SmartAsset considered. Its overall insurance rate of 93.1 ranks sixth in the U.S., as does the 88.3 percent coverage rate for people in low-income households.
While the average individual premium price of $291.35 is higher than the national average, it falls when controlling for income, SmartAsset said. Someone earning the median individual income in Connecticut would spend 8.1 percent of their income on health insurance at that rate, 21st-lowest in the U.S.
Metrics used by SmartAsset were: the percentage of total population with health insurance; percentage of children (under the age of 18) with health insurance; percentage of people whose income is less than 139 percent of the federal poverty line with health insurance; average monthly insurance premium for individual market policies; average annual insurance costs as a percentage of median individual income; a physician access index including metrics like number of physicians per capita and the number of retail clinics per capita; and prevention and treatment ranks using metrics such as the 30-day mortality at hospitals and the percentage of children who have received all recommended vaccines.
