The chart above shows that a weak to nonexistent relationship exists between a state's poverty rate, and its healthcare access rate. The scatterplot for healthcare rate and poverty rate suggests that the two may not share a meaninful link despite a common assumption that poverty precludes healthcare access. On one end of the poverty rate continuum is NH, at nearly zero percentpoverty rate, and around 11 percent health care access rate. On the other end is New Mexico which has a state povery rate of over 20 percent; and a healthcare access rate of 16 percent the states of the Deep South (e.g. Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina) all fall on the higher end of the spectrum for tate poverty rates; at the same time, these states maintain respectable healthcare access rates;which is consistent with the weak to nonexistent relationship observed in general.