New Findings from University of Tennessee Describe Advances in Insurance (The 2020 Us Presidential Election and Trump’s Wars On Trade and Health Insurance): Insurance

2023 JUL 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Fresh data on Insurance are presented in a new report. According to news reporting out of Knoxville, Tennessee, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The trade war initiated by the Trump administration is the largest since the US imposed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in the 1930s and was still raging when he left office. We analyze how the trade war impacted the 2020 US Presidential election.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Tennessee, “Our results highlight the political salience of the trade war: US trade war tariffs boosted Trump’s support but foreign retaliation hurt Trump. In particular, the pro-Trump effects of US trade war tariffs were crucial for Trump crossing the recount thresholds in Georgia and Wisconsin. Even more important politically, voters abandoned Trump in counties with large expansions of health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act, presumably fearing the roll-back of such expansion. Absent this anti -Trump effect, Trump would have been on the precipice of re-election by winning Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and only losing Wisconsin by a few thousand votes.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “These effects of the trade war and health insurance coverage expansion cross political and racial lines, suggesting the mechanism operates through the impact on local economies rather than political polarization.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The 2020 Us Presidential Election and Trump’s Wars On Trade and Health Insurance. European Journal of Political Economy, 2023;78. European Journal of Political Economy can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, Ste 800, 230 Park Ave, New York, NY 10169, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; European Journal of Political Economy - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-political-economy/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting James Lake, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2022.102338. 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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