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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Polit Policy Law. 2023 Feb 1;48(1):1–34. doi: 10.1215/03616878-10171062

Table 1.

State Demographics

GA MA RI WV
State population
Census 20201 10,711,908 7,029,917 1,097,379 1,793,716
% Urban 20102 75.1 92.0 90.7 48.7
Insurance dept demographics
Standalone dept or Division of other dept Standalone Division Division Standalone
% Change in staffing 2015–20193 −13.6 −13.1 0 −38.3
% Change in proportion of state budget 2015–20193,4 −15.5 −6.5 −26.4 −15.1
Insurance enrollment 6
Private 55.0 61.0 60.0 47.0
Medicare 13.0 13.0 15.0 19.0
Medicaid 17.0 22.0 21.0 27.0
Other public 2.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Uninsured 13.0 3.0 4.0 7.0
% population in plans where MHPAEA compliance overseen by state 13.9 21.2 15.0 9.0
1

Data retrieved from the 2020 Census Apportionment Results released April 2021 https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/dec/2020-apportionment-data.html

2

Data retrieved from the 2010 Census data https://data.census.gov/cedsci/all?q=2010%20census%20rural

3

Data retrieved from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Resource Report 2019: Volume 1 https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/publication-sta-hb-volume-one.pdf

4

State budgets retrieved from the National Association of State Budget Officers https://www.nasbo.org/reports-data/state-expenditure-report