Interest Groups and Health Care Reform across the United States

Appendix 4.2: Managed Care RegulationDescriptive Statistics

Appendix 4.2: Managed Care Regulation Descriptive Statistics Table A4.2 Managed Care Regulation Descriptive Statistics Variable Mean Standard Deviation DV: Number of provisions 7.30 2.24 DV: Stringency of provisions -0.01 5.19 DV: Weighted number of provisions 14.74 4.72 DV: Weighted stringency of provisions -0.02 10.78 Health proportion of all contributions 0.04 0.05 Folded Ranney index 0.87 0.09 Opinion liberalism -0.14 0.10 HMO penetration 21.80 13.32 Malpractice suit rate 21.44 8.27 Administrative capacity 3.04 0.61 Per capita GSP 0.03 0.005 Health advocacy percentage 10.57 4.80 Independent care provider percentage 1.43 1.18 HMO percentage 7.74 3.39 Health business percentage 7.83 2.95 Law percentage of all registrations 2.16 0.96 Health percentage of all registrations 16.87 7.06 Managed Care Regulation Descriptive Statistics | 197 Variable Mean Standard Deviation Frequency Percent Democratic governor 0 27 54 0.5 10 20 1 13 26 Democratic legislature 0 16 32 0.25 3 6 0.5 9 18 0.75 3 6 1 19 38 Source: Calculated by the authors. Table A4.2 (continued) ...