By Chris Melore
StudyFinds
The WalletHub study of the country’s 182 most populated cities finds Brownsville, Texas ranks as the unhealthiest city in America.
Across 43 key metrics, including the cost of a medical visit and the amount of fruits and vegetables people eat, the city of roughly 186,000 people along the U.S.-Mexico border sits at the bottom of the study’s “Food” and “Fitness” scores. Brownsville also ranks 172nd in terms of “Green Space” and 169th for “Health Care.”
Rounding out the “top five” of the nation's unhealthiest places to live are Gulfport, Mississippi (181st), Shreveport, Louisiana (180th), and Columbus (179th) and Augusta, Georgia (178th).
Rounding out the “top five” of the nation's unhealthiest places to live are Gulfport, Mississippi (181st), Shreveport, Louisiana (180th), and Columbus (179th) and Augusta, Georgia (178th).
Overall, Columbus, Georgia ranks as the city with the worst Health Care score in the nation. This score accounts for several factors including each city’s rate of premature death, mental health, the cost of medical care, and the number of residents with insurance.
While you might think of a big city like New York or Los Angeles as having little green space, it turns out that Montgomery, Alabama ranks last in this category. According to the WalletHub team, Montgomery (177th overall) ranks last in terms of their quality of parks, hiking trails per capita, access to recreation, and the city’s overall “greenness.”
The WalletHub team also notes that the average employer-provided healthcare plan will cost approximately 5.6 percent more in 2023. With that in mind, the study finds that people living in Alaska will end up paying the most at the doctor's office. Juneau and Anchorage tied for the highest cost of a medical visit in the nation. Going to the doctor in Wisconsin will also hurt your wallet, costing the most in Madison (180th) and Milwaukee (178th).
Interestingly, going to the doctor in Brownsville, Texas is the second-cheapest bill you’ll find.
While you might think of a big city like New York or Los Angeles as having little green space, it turns out that Montgomery, Alabama ranks last in this category. According to the WalletHub team, Montgomery (177th overall) ranks last in terms of their quality of parks, hiking trails per capita, access to recreation, and the city’s overall “greenness.”
The WalletHub team also notes that the average employer-provided healthcare plan will cost approximately 5.6 percent more in 2023. With that in mind, the study finds that people living in Alaska will end up paying the most at the doctor's office. Juneau and Anchorage tied for the highest cost of a medical visit in the nation. Going to the doctor in Wisconsin will also hurt your wallet, costing the most in Madison (180th) and Milwaukee (178th).
Interestingly, going to the doctor in Brownsville, Texas is the second-cheapest bill you’ll find.
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21 comments:
Blaming one person for this is stupid.
Dare to be thoughtful, Monty.
GO ROSE!!!
I had a bicycle at the age of 5 and I used it until I went to high school.
We rode around in our bike all the time having fun at Ringgold Park and around the neighborhood with our buddies. So, I thought that by doing so, I would be healthy. I would not get diabetes??? Bike riding sure did not protect me from getting it. Gowen rides a bike? How come she is so plump!
I probably got diabetes from watching the dirty streets all over the city, especially around the expressway where the illegal panhandlers live a mess.
Assign people to check each area of town and come up with a list of homes that need to be destroyed for they have become so dilapidated and dangerous.
Go down Roosevelt Street, between 14th and 15 and look at what this area looks like. How come one family is allowed to have a nest for pests and others are given citations for grass growing green but too high. That area is a total mess. There are houses that have burned down all over the city
and they still stand, providing a place for a tragic accident, needless to say, being in the middle of a neighborhood where children may wander into?
How can we be so unhealthy? Because parents use their Lone Star to buy
"CHE-TOES' ice cream, cokes, cookies, brisket after brisket, meat to the top of their baskets but now vegetables. Parents don't cook at home anymore for they line up in the Cadillacs and Mercedes at school to pick up food or their children to be fed super at school.
Our problem is that we are una bola de arastrados. He dicho!
Move to McAllen, but only if you DO NOT have a DUI arrest!
But Juan, McAllen is not on the list!
Also in the same survey: Interestingly, going to the doctor in Brownsville, Texas is the second-cheapest bill you’ll find.
ha ha ha. Why did you leave that out, Montoya?
In Brownsville people do not value an education. Food is expensive and when you are ill you need expensive food. It is in the area of food where education comes in because education will help people afford the food they need. People in Brownsville don't value an education because lots of them are still ignorant. It is called generational poverty. Poverty does not need to be economic.
None of these elected RATAS have their mind on helping the citizens of this community. Its only for them, their families and voting friends and their bank accounts of course.
DO NOT RE-ELECT NO ONE THEY DON'T LIKE YOU THEY NEVER HAVE AND NEVER WILL. REMEMBER THIS WHEN YOU GO VOTE.
DO NOT RE-ELECT NO ONE DO NOT RE-ELECT NO ONE DO NOT RE-ELECT NO ONE DO NOT RE-ELECT NO ONE
The only thing Gowen brought was bike lines downtown that hardly anyone uses while downsizing traffic lanes and to top it off, the constant painting of such bike lines. Another fiasco is the Farmers market, where vendors dont pay a penny for selling their products or produce and to top it off, now they will get free storage after investing millions on the Gutierrez warehouse.
Rose Gowen as a public servant has been a sham!! She has ripped off the citizens of Brownsville of possible improvements to our city with her pet projects. She has no sense of priorities. Its all about her , her elite friends and fuck everyone else. Her anglo mentality always looking out for the rich. Always had the money$$$. She doesn’t even pay property taxes on her historical designated home NO SHAME. Gowen definitely belongs on the long list of useless, self serving failures in our city government!!!! Time for you to go lady.
7:48 thanks for a trip down memory lane, good times back then. As far as the issues you talk about, once again you are absolutely right but unfortunately no one listens ! All these politicians just care about lining their pockets. Let the people in Brownsville take care of themselves.
The bikes lanes and sidewalks would be far more appreciated on the north side of town.
There has been too much wasted money thrown away on downtown. Kinda throwing your pearls before swine.
Like the extra nice bike trails downtown no one uses.
Meanwhile at the HEB Plus, where there are frequently bikes coming and going, has no sidewalks along Coffee. There are apartment buildings nearby, school kids walking every day, the bike trail itself is nearby, people on bikes but no sidewalks or expanded bike paths. These folks on foot or on bike are all right in the traffic, and it zooms by. This is one place where you will often see bicyclists and walkers in the street, but very little is done to help make them safer.
Maybe put the effort where people actually use bikes.
ESA PINCHE VIEJA ES UNA GRAN COCO ZAVAPATAS IS HER MESKIN NAME BUT DOES NOT LOOK GRINGA LOOKS MESKIN WITH YELLOW PAINT ON ALL HER HAIR. PINCHE COCO MAMONA.
WANNA BE WHITE BUT NEVER WILL GRINGOS LAUGHT AT YOUR ASS BEHIND YOUR BACK FACT!!!
NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOW THESE RATAS WHO RUNS THIS CITY KICK EVERYBODY OUT WE STAND TO GAIN MORE WITH NEW PEOPLE ON THE COMMISSION.
DO NOT RE-ELECT NOBODY EVEN TO A NEW POSITION
DO NOT ELECT NOBODY
April 6, 2023 at 7:01 AM
Open your own blog and campaign there, that would be more thoughtful idiota, PENDEJO, now nobody will vote for esa coco lambiscon like you, joto maricon.
Just to let her know I will not vote for her because of you supporting her MORON.
April 6, 2023 at 7:48 AM
So you were 5ft tall at the age of 5? or a midget when you were in high school??
or just a plain MENTIROSO?
If in mcallen don't come here if you are FAT.
If in sanbene don't come here if you are a pendejo a common medical problem there.
Like father, like daughter! How many remember Gus Zavaletta? De tal palo
tal estilla. All politicians are like the rake - para aca, para aca!
remember that health is impacted by a variety of factors, including social determinants of health such as income and education levels, and that improving overall health requires a multifaceted approach.
McAllen is Fattest in the country again. Same fat race, but with better government jobs than Brownsville.
April 6, 2023 at 7:01 AM
otra vez joton go open your own blog and advertise free all your gingos and gringas y cocos like yourself ESTUPIDO
COMO CHINGAS JOTON... GO PICK UP A MALE EN LAS CANTINAS MARICON.
To all the commissioners that went along with Rose Gowen's dunbass idea of bike trails that is the stupidest thing. This city does not. Repeat after me, does not have the infrastructure to adequately have bike lanes. The excessive heat many months of the year. Lack of sidewalks.Proper crossing lanes,etc. Who in their right mind is biking in 103 degree scorching sun. Even at 9 pm it is sometimes 90 degrees. Oh but Rose you think it's safe to be biking. Nah dehydration, sun stroke, melanoma or skin cancers. It does not seem you have common sense as a doctor. Oh well you are a gynecologist and not an internist or family doctor. No sabes madre de lo que es importante. We don't live in an ALICE IN WONDERLAND CITY.You wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on this b.s. bike trails. They are the dumbest things. Plus cyclists are constantly hit by cars. In fact one man died recently. Ah pero tu eres my chingona with your pet projects. I wish the city admitted they are a failure and get rid of them. If you want to bring change Gowen work to decrease obesity etc. Not pendejadas de bike trails. We are not Austin or Dallas. SHE NEEDS TO BE VOTED OUT!!! Let someone else in.
this city is ranked 160 in texas as the most infidel city (cheating spouses) and ranks NUMERO UNO in texas in jotismo y mariconismo, in other words muchos jotos aqui and don't go tooooo far there is one known here that keeps posting, we all know who he/she is.
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