Health care in the Midwest
Big-name systems, lower prices than the coasts, and rural hospitals closing one county at a time. 11080 places across 1 city.
What changes about health care in the Midwest
The Midwest is home to the hospitals other regions fly to: the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the Cleveland Clinic, Northwestern, the University of Chicago and Rush in Chicago, Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor. Chicago alone has more academic medical centers than most states. Most Midwest states expanded Medicaid, and Illinois insures about ninety-three percent of its people.
Outside the big cities the picture flips. The Midwest has lost more rural hospitals than any region except the South, and in the Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska the nearest emergency room can be an hour away. Employer insurance is common because of manufacturing, but so is the high-deductible plan that comes with it.
What changes for the patient: prices for the same procedure run twenty to forty percent below New York or California, urgent care and retail clinics are the front door, and Chicago's safety net, Cook County Health, is one of the oldest and largest in the country. The wait for a specialist is shorter than on the coasts.
Midwest cities in the directory
Doctors, urgent care centers, pharmacies, dentists and labs, with address and phone, in each of the 1 city.