Partisanship, Polling, and the Affordable Care Act

2019 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mollyann Brodie ◽  
Elizabeth C Hamel ◽  
Ashley Kirzinger ◽  
Bianca Dijulio
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Major Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Public Views

AbstractIn an age of increasing political polarization, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stands out as one of the most politically divisive pieces of legislation in recent history. Unlike previous laws making changes to the US health care system, public views of the ACA did not improve measurably as people gained experience with the program, but remained deeply divided on a partisan basis in the more than eight years since its passage. In this article, we examine how the complexity of the law, lack of understanding by the public, and elite partisan messaging have contributed to this enduring partisan divide, and discuss what the future may hold for the measurement of public opinion on major health care legislation.

scholarly journals The Hippocratic Oath, the US Health Care System, and the Affordable Care Act in 2015

2015 ◽  
Vol 128 (11) ◽  
pp. 1162-1164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory H. Jones ◽  
Ayalew Tefferi ◽  
David Steensma ◽  
Hagop Kantarjian
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Hippocratic Oath ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Care System

What Is the Affordable Care Act a Case of? Understanding the ACA through the Comparative Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-691
Author(s):  
Holly Jarman ◽  
Scott L. Greer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract International comparisons of US health care are common but mostly focus on comparing its performance to peers or asking why the United States remains so far from universal coverage. Here the authors ask how other comparative research could shed light on the unusual politics and structure of US health care and how the US experience could bring more to international conversations about health care and the welfare state. After introducing the concept of casing—asking what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) might be a case of—the authors discuss different “casings” of the ACA: complex legislation, path dependency, demos-constraining institutions, deep social cleavages, segmentalism, or the persistence of the welfare state. Each of these pictures of the ACA has strong support in the US-focused literature. Each also cases the ACA as part of a different experience shared with other countries, with different implications for how to analyze it and what we can learn from it. The final section discusses the implications for selecting cases that might shed light on the US experience and that make the United States look less exceptional and more tractable as an object of research.

Bridging the Gulf on Health Care Policy Beyond the Affordable Care Act

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Sustainable Health

This article presents a brief overview of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and changes ushered into the health care system by the Act. The overview is followed by arguments for and against the ACA, integrating and situating the divergent arguments within the context of both democratic and conservative standpoints on health care policy. Furthermore, the article explores the possibility of identifying factors responsible for the seeming difficulty in transiting policy from agenda status to adoption in a democratic system of governance. The article concludes with suggestions on ways and strategies that can help in bridging the ostensible gap between divergent positions, with the hope of charting the course to the desired destination of an equitable and sustainable health care policy for the United States.

scholarly journals A Review of a Historical Summit on Integrative Medicine

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Ullman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Integrative Medicine ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
The Public ◽  
Included Patient ◽  
The Us ◽  
Centered Care

The US Institute of Medical sponsors a “Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public” on February 25–27, 2009. A prestigious body of speakers and attendees created a dynamic conference in which the content and discussions provided vital information for transforming the US health care system. Topics included: patient-centered care, the scientific basis of integrative medicine, health care financing reform and value-driven care, and mind-body relationships and health.

Judicial Legitimacy, Political Polarization, and How the Public Views the Supreme Court

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zilis ◽  
Rachael Blandau
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Institutional Legitimacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Diffuse Support ◽  
Public Views

As of late 2020, the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court consists of six generally conservative Republican appointees and three generally liberal Democratic appointees, one of the first times such a configuration has occurred in decades. In addition, contentious recent confirmation battles may have fundamentally altered public views about the Supreme Court. When it comes to public opinion about the Supreme Court, understanding the institution’s legitimacy and its relationship with political polarization is critical. Institutional legitimacy is a key currency for political bodies—and courts in particular—even as scholarly conceptions of legitimacy differ from popular commentary on the topic. To understand the nature of public opinion toward the Court in a polarized era, one must distinguish between specific support, a type of short-term satisfaction or approval, and diffuse support, commonly known as institutional legitimacy. Recent developments, including controversial confirmation battles and rulings, suggest that partisan and ideological cleavages may increasingly shape the Court’s legitimacy. Scholarship must continue to grapple with Supreme Court legitimacy in a time of political polarization.

scholarly journals Health care reform in the US: an analysis of implementation of the Affordable Care Act in California

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Roby ◽  
Ken Jacobs ◽  
Greg Watson ◽  
Alla Bronshteyn ◽  
Dave Graham-Squire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Affordable Care Act
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