“…Therefore, the effects of government ideology on healthcare policies are a priori unclear. The empirical evidence as to whether government ideology predicts public health expenditure is mixed (Béland & Oloomi, 2017;Brändle & Colombier, 2016;Castro & Martins, 2018;Herwartz & Theilen, 2014;Jensen, 2011;Joshi, 2015;Kousser, 2002;Potrafke, 2010Potrafke, , 2012Wiese, 2014). Almost all previous studies use health expenditure as the dependent variable.…”