2018 scorecard on health system performance Radley, David, author. McCarthy, Douglas, author. Hayes, Susan L., author. United States. Quality Indicators, Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Quality Indicators, Health Care -- trends Quality of Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Quality of Health Care -- trends State Government Overall, four major trends emerge from our analysis of the Scorecard results: (1) Rising death rates, high levels of obesity, and gaps in care are pressing challenges for states. (2) Regional differences in performance persist, as do within-state disparities. (3) Many states are not getting good value for their health care dollars. (4) States made progress in areas that were the target of efforts to improve. [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, May 2018 Commonwealth Fund, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (61 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101729272-pdf 101729272 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101729272 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0