Connecticut Ranks Lowest In New England Health Care For 2025

A new study has just ranked every state in New England among the Top 15 of 'Best States for Health Care 2025', and Connecticut is bringing up the rear of the best.

According to WalletHub.com and Best & Worst States for Health Care 2025, only a few states rank among the six New England States near the top of the rankings. In order to determine the best and worst states for health care in the United States for 2025 WalletHub compared all 50 states and DC across three key dimensions: Cost, Access, and outcomes.

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WalletHub then further evaluated those dimensions using 44 relevant metrics, including: Cost of a medical visit, dental visit, average monthly insurance premium, share of adults with no doctor visit due to cost, hospital beds per capita, physicians per capita, EMT & Paramedics per capita, convenient care clinics per capita, share of insured adults, life expectancy, and share of non-immunized children.

Feel Sick? Need to go to the Emergency Room? Stay in the Northeast

Although we have one of the highest average monthly insurance premiums in the country, WalletHub's study has ranked Connecticut at #15 best overall for 2025. All of the New England states ranked higher, with Vermont at #12, Maine at #6, Massachusetts at #5, Rhode Island at #2, and New Hampshire as #1 - The Best state for health care in the US for 2025.

Connecticut has the 4th most physicians per capita in the country, the most dentists per capita in the country, and the highest rate of adults visiting their dentist in the country, but we also have the fourth highest cancer rate in the country, and some of the highest costs for healthcare in the country too.

The worst states for health care in 2025? Alaska and Mississippi.

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