The Medicaid Makeover: Program Names, Policy Feedback, and Political Mobilization

• In Event: Health and Social Policy and Trust in Institutions

Brief Overview

States’ decisions to rename Medicaid programs obscures Medicaid benefits. We conduct a survey experiment with 3,000 respondents to assess perceptions of the OBBBA reforms’ effect on willingness to engage in political organizing to safeguard Medicaid.

Authors

• Miranda Elyse Yaver, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus

• Michael Shepherd, University of Michigan