New Findings from University of Oklahoma in the Area of Insurance Reported (Policy Escalation: Richard Nixon, Welfare Reform, and the Development of a Comprehensive Approach To Health Insurance): Insurance

2023 OCT 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Research findings on Insurance are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting originating in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “I argue that health insurance emerged as an important aspect of Nixon’s domestic policy agenda as a result of ‘policy escalation.’ By policy escalation, I mean a cascading line of reasoning that causes policy makers focused on one apparently discrete issue to formulate approaches for dealing with other interconnecting policy areas.”

Financial support for this research came from University of Texas, Arlington.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Oklahoma, “Policy escalation serves as an internal agenda-setting mechanism: as policy makers contemplate policy changes, they may attempt to imagine the ways in which change will affect the rationale, fiscal position, and execution of programs in other policy areas. In the case of health insurance, the Nixon administration’s proposal for replacing Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a guaranteed minimum income forced policy makers to consider how the new program would interact with the existing Medicaid program.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Consideration of this question ultimately led them to formulate an approach to overhauling the nation’s entire health insurance system.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Policy Escalation: Richard Nixon, Welfare Reform, and the Development of a Comprehensive Approach To Health Insurance. Journal of Policy History, 2023;35(3):354-386. Journal of Policy History can be contacted at: Cambridge Univ Press, 32 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA. (Cambridge University Press - www.cambridge.org; Journal of Policy History - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JPH)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Daniel Sledge, University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898030623000039. 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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