December 12, 2007 - Families USA, a national health advocacy group, has released a set of reports that examines the health care crisis in individual states.
Findings include:
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456,000 New Mexicans are in families that will spend more than 10 percent of their income on health care costs in 2008.
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More than 1.3 million Washingtonians are in families that will spend more than 10 percent of their income on health care costs in 2008.
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Nearly 1.6 million Virginians are in families that will spend more than 10 percent of their income on health care costs in 2008.
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Nearly 1.4 million Arizonans are in families that will spend more than 10 percent of their income on health care costs in 2008.
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Nearly 2.2 million Ohioans are in families that will spend more than 10 percent of their income on health care costs in 2008.
Read reports from: Virginia, Washington, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Arizona.
