Policy Feedback and Health Inequity in America

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

In this panel, researchers will explore two concepts central to the study of health politics and policy: policy feedback and inequality. This panel will include research investigating how reaching the age of 65 fundamentally alters individual knowledge of the Medicare program as well as individual behavior. In addition, it will investigate the continued impacts of the Affordable Care Act on health attitudes and behaviors in the United States. Next, it will include an important examination of the impact of the politicization of the pandemic on public health workers. It will conclude with a vital look at perceptions of which groups have been harmed by the pandemic and the relationship between these perceptions and attitudes towards the pandemic response.

Sub Unit

• Division 48: Health Politics & Health Policy

Individual Presentations

• Does Medicare Improve More than Health?Policy Feedback Effects & Public Learning - Jason Barabas, Dartmouth College

• Policy Feedback, Partisanship, and the Making of American Citizenship - Ling Zhu, University of Houston; Lawrence R. Jacobs, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University

• Who Does COVID Hurt Most? Perceptions of Unequal Impact & Political Implications - Jake Haselswerdt, University of Missouri, Columbia; Sarah E. Gollust, University of Minnesota

• Schoolhouse Blues: Partisanship, COVID-19 and Opinions on School Reopenings - Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University; Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine; Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University; Colleen Dougherty Burton, N/A

Chair

• Simon F. Haeder Texas A&M University

Discussants

• Philip B. Rocco Marquette University

• Simon F. Haeder Texas A&M University