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- Title
Public Option Versus the Market: Perceived Value Violations Drive Opposition to Healthcare Reform.
- Authors
Wetherell, Geoffrey; Reyna, Christine; Sadler, Melody
- Abstract
The debate over healthcare reform in the United States has been divisive. Research demonstrates that beliefs that policy beneficiaries violate values strongly predict opposition to these policies. Similar dynamics may be happening regarding opposition to healthcare reform. Specifically, this study tested the hypothesis that opposition to a public option in healthcare reform results from stereotypes that public-option beneficiaries violate values. In two studies utilizing three samples, beliefs about beneficiaries violating values of hard work consistently predicted opposition to a public option and an alternative market-based healthcare reform plan, often proposed by public-option opponents. Results also suggest that assertions that a public option would lead to bigger government increases opposition to a public option by indirectly masking underlying stereotypes about value violations.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC opinion on health care reform; HEALTH care reform; MEDICAL care; LEGAL status of beneficiaries; STEREOTYPES; GOVERNMENT control; VALUES (Ethics) -- Social aspects; UNITED States politics &; government -- Social aspects; PATIENT Protection &; Affordable Care Act; MEDICAL care laws
- Publication
Political Psychology, 2013, Vol 34, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0162-895X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00923.x