“…The politics of health care, however, remain increasingly racialized and thus limit the potential for health outcomes proportionate to the significance of this policy achievement (Michener, 2021). Specifically, large segments of the public remain resistant to ideas of expanding access to health insurance (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021) and scholars have provided evidence of how Americans' racist attitudes affect public opinion of the need for health care policy reform (Mitchell & Dowe, 2019), perceiving reform as less of a priority when populations of color benefit (Knowles et al, 2010; McCabe, 2019). Republican policymakers at all levels of government have opposed expansions to the Medicaid program (Cassidy, 2017) and many have been part of efforts to propose restrictive and racist policies such as work requirements that limit eligibility, disproportionately burden individuals of color, and play to partisan fallacies about work and health (Alker et al, 2018; Grogan & Park, 2017; Haeder et al, 2021).…”