Least Healthy States

People have mentioned a number of common factors among the states listed. But there's another that no one has mentioned yet. I haven't looked it up, but at a quick look I am pretty sure that all of them are so-called "right to work" states (actually "right to work for less"). That means a state where unions are absent or nearly so, which means lower wages, less likely to have health benefits on the job, more poverty and all that goes with poverty.

It's also interesting to note that they also vote Republican.

The states with the worst health outcomes have in effect failed to build functional social contracts that deliver equitable benefits of life in a free society. (Not equal results but equity.)

I seem to recall that this was the premise behind "Compassionate Conservatism" Or, more appropriately put--"Awww, I feel sorry that you are poor, disabled, homeless, under educated....but, I ain't going to do a thing about it except to say how sorry I feel that I am not you."

Really what does this have to do with the list ?