Table 2

State spending losses and tax cut gains from ACA repeal

Ranked from greatest to least relative burden (Effect in millions) (Effect as a share of national) State’s share of national under-65 population Relative burden
1
Loss		 2
Gain		 3
Net		 4
Loss		 5
Gain		 6
Net
Kentucky 4,093 677 -3,416 3.7% 1.0% 8.8% 1.39% -7.37%
North Carolina* 5,056 1,796 -3,260 4.6% 2.6% 8.4% 3.11% -5.25%
Oregon 3,173 739 -2,434 2.9% 1.1% 6.2% 1.22% -5.02%
New Mexico 2,294 292 -2,002 2.1% 0.4% 5.1% 0.66% -4.48%
Arizona 3,447 1,163 -2,284 3.2% 1.7% 5.9% 2.07% -3.79%
Washington 3,525 1,656 -1,869 3.2% 2.4% 4.8% 2.22% -2.57%
Florida* 7,630 4,367 -3,263 7.0% 6.2% 8.4% 5.87% -2.50%
New Jersey 4,970 2,958 -2,012 4.5% 4.2% 5.2% 2.82% -2.34%
Louisiana 2,226 848 -1,378 2.0% 1.2% 3.5% 1.48% -2.05%
Colorado 2,731 1,282 -1,449 2.5% 1.8% 3.7% 1.71% -2.01%
West Virginia 1,175 252 -923 1.1% 0.4% 2.4% 0.57% -1.80%
Ohio 4,033 2,105 -1,928 3.7% 3.0% 4.9% 3.62% -1.32%
Montana 807 177 -630 0.7% 0.3% 1.6% 0.31% -1.30%
Nevada 1,340 523 -817 1.2% 0.7% 2.1% 0.89% -1.21%
Michigan 3,264 1,781 -1,483 3.0% 2.5% 3.8% 3.10% -0.70%
Tennessee* 2,226 1,162 -1,064 2.0% 1.7% 2.7% 2.05% -0.68%
Rhode Island 616 221 -395 0.6% 0.3% 1.0% 0.33% -0.68%
Idaho* 540 242 -298 0.5% 0.3% 0.8% 0.51% -0.25%
Vermont 263 118 -145 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.19% -0.18%
Maine* 429 220 -209 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.40% -0.13%
Alaska 278 139 -139 0.3% 0.2% 0.4% 0.25% -0.11%
Maryland 2,293 1,540 -753 2.1% 2.2% 1.9% 1.90% -0.04%
Arkansas 823 449 -374 0.8% 0.6% 1.0% 0.93% -0.04%
Delaware 303 180 -123 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.29% -0.03%
Mississippi* 788 408 -380 0.7% 0.6% 1.0% 0.95% -0.02%
Alabama* 1,349 768 -581 1.2% 1.1% 1.5% 1.52% 0.02%
Wyoming* 162 127 -35 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.19% 0.10%
Hawaii 354 236 -118 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.44% 0.14%
New Hampshire 415 307 -108 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.41% 0.14%
North Dakota 223 199 -24 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.23% 0.17%
South Dakota* 126 172 46 0.1% 0.2% -0.1% 0.27% 0.38%
Nebraska* 409 359 -50 0.4% 0.5% 0.1% 0.59% 0.47%
Missouri* 1,616 1,077 -539 1.5% 1.5% 1.4% 1.90% 0.51%
District of Columbia 146 271 125 0.1% 0.4% -0.3% 0.21% 0.53%
Indiana 1,609 1,076 -533 1.5% 1.5% 1.4% 2.09% 0.72%
Iowa 626 553 -73 0.6% 0.8% 0.2% 0.96% 0.78%
South Carolina* 1,039 787 -252 1.0% 1.1% 0.6% 1.49% 0.84%
Oklahoma* 823 678 -145 0.8% 1.0% 0.4% 1.22% 0.85%
Kansas* 532 568 36 0.5% 0.8% -0.1% 0.92% 1.01%
Georgia* 2,764 1,895 -869 2.5% 2.7% 2.2% 3.25% 1.02%
Utah* 404 472 68 0.4% 0.7% -0.2% 0.97% 1.14%
Illinois 4,197 3,115 -1,082 3.8% 4.4% 2.8% 4.11% 1.34%
Connecticut 1,257 1,361 104 1.2% 1.9% -0.3% 1.13% 1.39%
Minnesota 1,358 1,271 -87 1.2% 1.8% 0.2% 1.72% 1.50%
Wisconsin* 1,133 1,065 -68 1.0% 1.5% 0.2% 1.81% 1.63%
California 13,588 9,908 -3,680 12.4% 14.1% 9.4% 12.38% 2.95%
Massachusetts 1,904 2,244 340 1.7% 3.2% -0.9% 2.11% 2.98%
Pennsylvania 3,078 2,722 -356 2.8% 3.9% 0.9% 3.95% 3.03%
Virginia* 1,578 2,038 460 1.4% 2.9% -1.2% 2.64% 3.82%
New York 4,857 5,719 862 4.4% 8.1% -2.2% 6.22% 8.43%
Texas* 5,366 5,962 596 4.9% 8.5% -1.5% 8.68% 10.21%
Totals 109,236 70,245 -38,991 100% 100% 100% 100% 0
Economic Policy Institute

* Non-Medicaid expansion states

Note: Data columns 4 – 6 reflect each state's dollar loss, gain, and net from columns 1 – 3 divided by the national dollar totals in the last data row.

 

Source: Based on data from Blumberg, Buettgens, and Holahan. (2016), Tax Policy Center (2016), Frank (2017), and the U.S. Census Bureau (2016) (data on population under the age of 65).

Copy the code below to embed this chart on your website.

This chart appears in:

Previous chart: «

Next chart: »