Framing Health Care Reform in Canada and the United States in the 1940s-1960s: The Role of (Racial) Status Quo Bias

• In Event: Health Communication

Brief Overview

Social welfare provision in the U.S. and Canada diverged after WWII. I interrogate how political elites framed health care reform given that pressures to change or maintain the status quo looked different in each country during this time.

Authors

• Ana Schugurensky, University of California-Irvine

• Jordan Farnworth, University of California-Irvine

• Zeynep Karatas, University of California-Irvine