Rory O'Neill looks at best and worst states for healthcare

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Roy O'Neil joins US now to take a look at
some new research that has come out and a study
how does your state stack up compared to others when
it comes to healthcare? Let me guess roy Alabama made
the bad list once again.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, not the best. But this breaks it down into
three different categories, access to healthcare, the cost of healthcare,
and the outcomes. Now, where Alabama did rank okay, was
actually in the cost category, coming in smack dab in
the middle at number twenty six. Now the access to healthcare,
that's the problem that came in at number fifty and

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then the outcomes were forty nine. So the overall rank
for Alabama is forty nine on this list.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I would really like to know who these people are
talking to and where they get their data from, because
UAB Hospital system is probably one of the best in
the country here. So as far as access goes, what
does that mean? What kind of criteria they looking at?
I understand outside the cities, you know the Bigger Mobile
and mcgarmy hunts full in Birmingham, it's rural pretty quick,
like a lot of states, right, is that the access

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that people outside the metropolitan areas have trouble getting in right.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
So when they calculate access, it's the quality of the
public health system, followed by hospital beds per capita, average
response time by EMS, average emergency room wait time time
before admission, share of patients leaving the yard without being seen,
physicians per capita as well. Then they break it down
to the number of geriatricians, nurse practitioners EMTs, and urgent

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care centers per capita. Things like that.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I got to tell you, I've been pretty pleased with
healthcare I get here in Alabama. I'm not sure but
the rest of the folks that we're listening to or
listening to us this morning, but I'd give us higher
marks than that. So, all right, what states ended up
at the top of the list here? Let me get
northeast somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
New Hampshire actually coming in there at number one on
the list, and then Rhode Island and Minnesota also in there.
The big health centers there in Minnesota, Iowa, and Massachusetts
make the top five. Others at the bottom of the
survey include Mississippi. Alaska comes in at number fifty. Give

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some credit to Alaska. Go when you took the three
different numbers there it's their cost that's crazy because they
have to pay so much extra to get people in.
But the other two categories actually score Okay. Texas, Georgia,
West Virginia also near the bottom of the barrel.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, I would have thought that Hawaii might have been
cost you know, crazy because of everything has to be
shipped in over here.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah. Where did Hawaii score overall? They came at number eleven, Wow,
but twenty eighth when it came to the cost.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
What's going on in Las Vegas? Apparently the workers are
pretty scared and worried about things not working out, and
tourism's dropping tips or dropping what's happening?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, tourism is way off in Las Vegas. Since June
June to June June of this year to June of
last year. Hotel occupancy is down more than fourteen percent,
revenue per available hotel room down nearly twenty percent. The
Las Vegas tourism folks say that overall, for the first
five months of twenty twenty five, things are down about

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six point five percent compared to last year. And in
a city that relies on tips, when those numbers go down,
it really hurts. About one hundred and eighty thousand people
in metropolitan Las Vegas survive on tips, so they're hurting
right now. As there's an old saying that goes when
the American economy sneezes, Vegas gets the flu.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
So any indication as to why people just tired of
all the sin that goes on there or they just
don't have the money to continue to pour into these huge,
large casinos, because let's just call it, these casinos are
not being built on people that are winning.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Out there right well, right, First, the cost right now,
it's gotten so lavish out there that it's cost prohibit prohibitive.
And two, people don't have to go to Vegas to
gamble anymore. There are plenty of other options, a whole
lot closer to home as more and more states legalize it.
Plus we've seen a big drop off in Canadians. Yeah,
there's the geopolitical stuff, but also because the Canadian dollar

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is way down against the US dollar, so it's been
much more expensive for Canadians to come to the US.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I guess people are finding other ways to spend their
hard earn money there. You can go roy O Neil,
Thank you, buddy, I appreciate you,