Findings from University of California Berkeley Reveals New Findings on Health Policy and Law (When State Policy Makes National Politics: the Case of “obamacare” Marketplace Implementation)

2020 FEB 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics, Law & Government Daily -- Data detailed on Legal Issues - Health Policy and Law have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Berkeley, California, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “State governments have been powerful sites of Republican resistance to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Democratic Party’s signature 2010 law. By influencing how citizens experience the ACA, state-level implementation can affect the national-level political implications of the law.”

Financial support for this research came from National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of California Berkeley, “I examine three largely unstudied areas of marketplace implementation: navigator laws, transitional plan termination, and rating area configurations. For each policy area, I use linear probability models to investigate the determinants of state lawmakers bolstering or eroding marketplaces. In each case, Democrat-controlled states were more likely to bolster marketplaces than Republican-controlled states were, with decisions more polarized in those policy areas-navigator laws and transitional plan termination- and with greater potential for national-level feedback. For navigator laws, where Republican state lawmakers were most cross-pressured by national party interests and local interests, marketplace eroding policy was highly associated with strength of conservative networks. Crafters of federal legislation cannot expect state lawmakers to universally implement federal law to maximize the direct benefits to their constituents.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Rather, we should expect state lawmakers to, in many instances, implement federal law in ways that benefit their parties.”

For more information on this research see: When State Policy Makes National Politics: the Case of “obamacare” Marketplace Implementation. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 2020;45(1):111-141. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law can be contacted at: Duke Univ Press, 905 W Main St, Ste 18-B, Durham, NC 27701, USA.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S. Trachtman, University of California Berkeley, Charles & Louise Travers Dept Polit Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-7893591. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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