New Jersey Health Insurance

State Rankings

In the past decade, New Jersey has been up and down in the healthcare rankings. While some statistics improve, others regress, and vice versa. Fortunately, in the past year, New Jersey continued a trend of positive changes in its state health, up to 11th in the country. The strengths of New Jersey healthcare include a low number of children in poverty, low smoking rates, a high number of primary care physicians, and a very strong high school graduation percentage. Unfortunately, these statistics have the potential to be offset by very low rates of early prenatal care (45th in the nation), preventable hospitalizations, and child immunization coverage. Ranking 30th in public health funding also hurts healthcare in New Jersey. However, it is important to note that some stats, including the number of preventable hospitalizations, has been slowly improving recently. New Jersey has potential to improve even further once the overall unemployment rate decreases and residents have a chance to spend more money on health.

New Jersey Health Insurance

As healthy as New Jersey is, 15% of residents are still uninsured, according to the Kaiser Foundation. While this percentage is still below the national average, it isn't by much. This high number of uninsured residents has potential to cost New Jersey a lot of money in public health funding and increased healthcare costs, especially with high rates of diabetes, cancer deaths, and cardiovascular deaths. However, New Jersey still has many items to be proud of in its residents' overall health. New Jersey has several healthcare plans that are highly rated by the NCQA: