New Social Science Study Findings Have Been Reported by Researchers at University of Arkansas (Dissecting Perceptions: Exploring the Determinants of Health-Care Reform Preferences*)

Law & Health Weekly

2019 FEB 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- A new study on Science - Social Science is now available. According to news reporting originating in Fayetteville, Arkansas, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “There is significant research regarding health-care preferences in other nations and racial preference for health-care providers. However, minimal research examines health-care reform preferences in the United States.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Arkansas, “Therefore, this study aims to fill this void by demonstrating how a subterranean agenda, or attitudes toward race that manifest themselves into policy, at least partially drove public opinion regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Drawing from a nationally representative sample in the 2012 Blair Center-Clinton School Poll, this study examines how various ‘subterranean’ elements in addition to economic, demographic, sociological, ideological, regional, and conditional factors shaped attitudes toward the ACA. Testing multiple hypotheses, we found that a subterranean agenda shaped preferences for ACA along with various other factors, such as presidential approval, individuals’ perception regarding the role of the federal government, ideology, feeling toward blacks, feeling toward the Tea Party, and a conditional effect between a person’s financial status and feeling toward blacks. Preference for ACA is complex and driven by a multitude of factors.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Future studies should explore the dynamics of public opinion over time and other state-level and temporally driven factors that may increase or decrease the probability of individuals supporting health-care reform.”

For more information on this research see: Dissecting Perceptions: Exploring the Determinants of Health-Care Reform Preferences*. Social Science Quarterly, 2019;100(1):245-258. Social Science Quarterly can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Social Science Quarterly - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-6237)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J.L. Mitchell, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12546. 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.