Deservingness, Shared Identity, and the Affordable Care Act in the Opioid Crisis

• In Event: Group Empathy

Brief Overview

The opioid crisis presents an opportunity to test how the beneficiaries of healthcare policy affect public opinion. We test how sharing an identity with victims of the crisis may help bridge partisan divides, specifically for the Affordable Care Act.

Authors

• Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Boston University

• Michael Stephen Griffin Hankinson, Baruch College, CUNY