What's up with Massachusetts?

I recently found a article from January 2006 that ran in the Boston Globe. It was talking about how the healthcare costs in the state are much higher than those in the rest of the United States. One reason of course is because their per capita income is so much higher, especially than that of Kentucky. Another reason that the article talked about was all the money the state receives from research grants. They receive close to five times what everyone else does in grants. Somehow this doesn't seem fair to me when I know Kentucky has a lot of healthcare issues that we can't take care of because of the lack of funds. James Mongan, the author of the article, talked about how the costs have went down in recent years. This has to be a great relief to them considering that Massachusetts medical plan costs were almost the highest in the nation not long ago. Although the costs have went down for Massachusetts they are rising for the rest of the nation. It is getting harder and harder for people and families to keep coverage. The rising costs are to provide funding for new drugs, treatments, and procedures that will hopefully in the end help society, but as of right now they are only adding more stress to a nation that is already in an economic downturn.