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Ratings
It’s important to know where Iowa stands on healthcare, because you can't fix what you won't face.
Iowa Is Losing Doctors and Gaining a HealthCare Crisis
Iowa ranks 44th in the nation for doctors per capita. For OB-GYNs specifically, we are dead last in the country.
Source: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, 11/14/2025; KFF Health News,11/5/2025
Rural clinics are closing. Iowa hospital safety has sunk near the bottom of national rankings.
And Congress recently passed a budget that cuts Medicaid — a vote cast by Iowa's own representatives in Washington.
Source: Iowa Public Radio, 11/14/2025; Des Moines Register, 5/22/2025
And the cancer numbers are alarming: Iowa is #2 in the nation for overall cancer rates, and #1
for new cancer diagnoses. Only 6 states in the country have rising cancer rates, and Iowa leads them. 87 of Iowa's 99 counties now report cancer rates higher than the national trend.
Source: Des Moines Register, 10/7/2025; KCRG, 2/5/2026
IOWA's HEALTHCARE Ranking: CRITICAL
what you can do
Iowa's ratings are going in the wrong direction. But Iowans have a voice — in statehouses and in Washington. Iowa's congressional delegation voted to cut Medicaid, a decision that is already impacting rural hospitals and health care access across the state.
call congress today: 202-224-3124
Tell them: stop making health care more expensive for Iowa families.
Paid for by Fair Democracy.
Sources: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, 11/14/2025; KFF Health News, 11/5/2025 | Des Moines Register, 10/7/2025 | KCRG, 2/5/2026 | Des Moines Register, 5/22/2025 | Iowa Public Radio, 11/14/2025
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