The Power of a Tweet? Social Media, Presidential Communication, and the Politics of Health

Haeder, Simon F.; Chattopadhyay, Jacqueline

doi:10.1111/psq.12780

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“… 47-49 The racialization of US health policy has only been further exacerbated in the wake of the election of President Obama 50 as well as the implementation of the ACA. 51 , 52 We thus hypothesize the following:…”

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Most Americans support minimizing administrative burdens for Medicaid recipients as the public health emergency ends

Haeder

Moynihan

2023

Health Affairs Scholar

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During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), states were barred from disenrolling anyone from Medicaid unless the beneficiary asked to be disenrolled, moved out of state, or died. Coverage increased, but as the PHE ends an estimated 7 million eligible Americans are expected to lose insurance due to difficulty navigating the renewal process. The end of the PHE therefore offers state policymakers a chance to reassess the value of such administrative burdens as a variety of policy tools are available to mitigate these losses. We inform this discussion via a national survey that captures public preferences around administrative burdens in public health insurance. We find strong public support for burden reduction techniques that minimize coverage losses such as using administrative data to shift burdens onto the state and better outreach and communication, with an average of 74 percent of respondents supporting each policy tool. This support holds across the ideological spectrum, demographic groups, but it is stronger among liberals than conservatives, for those with more direct experience of burdens, those who struggle with such burdens, and for those with lower racial prejudice.

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Most Americans support minimizing administrative burdens for Medicaid recipients as the public health emergency ends

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Moynihan

2023

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“…Lucid is frequently used to conduct survey research on US public opinion for health and social policy analysis. 7 , 10-12 The data collected were closely matched to important national demographics such as race, age, sex, income, and census region. Additional details about the survey can be found in Appendix Exhibits 1-7 .…”

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Assessing past and future COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States in light of federal policy changes

Haeder

2023

Health Affairs Scholar

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Vaccinations provide an effective solution against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Using a national survey (n = 3958), this study explored vaccination hesitancy for various COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, including the newly released annual vaccine for fall and winter 2023–2024. It also assessed support for federal funding for COVID-19 testing, vaccinations, and treatment. Consistent correlates of past vaccination refusal were perceptions of vaccines as safe and important, previous COVID-19 tests, concern about COVID-19, having voted for President Trump, higher religiosity, being liberal, trust in health institutions, health insurance status, and education. Other predictors showed inconsistent results across the various stages. Drivers of vaccination refusal were concerns about vaccine safety and side effects, perceived lack of information, and having previously contracted COVID-19. Intention to vaccinate was associated with concerns about COVID-19, liberalism, and trust in health institutions. Other factors were intermittently significant. We found consistent support for federal funding for those concerned about COVID-19, those concerned about the effectiveness of existing vaccines, those with trust in health institutions, those who thought vaccines are important, women, and those with lower levels of education. Opposition came from conservatives and Trump voters.

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Stability and policy threats: US public opinion after a decade of the Affordable Care Act

Haeder,

Sylvester

2024

World Med & Health Policy

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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to shape US politics at the elite level. We know less about whether this conflict still carries over to the broader public. Moreover, we know little about the degree to which the conflict reaches into its various policies and whether the policy threats to the ACA can affect public opinion. We fielded a large, and demographically diverse survey of US adults using Lucid (N = 6066) from July 8–21, 2020. The survey contained an experiment that introduced the topic to respondents as the 2010 health reform law, the ACA, or Obamacare and at times highlighted the potential undoing of the ACA by the US Supreme Court. Analyses were conducted using Ordinary Least Squares regression. Our findings indicate that perceptions of the ACA differ substantial based on partisanship and racial prejudice. Framing still matters in the minds of Americans and their perception of health reforms in general and its individual components by extending these differences. However, we find only very limited evidence for changes to public attitudes related to the policy threat of the Supreme Court ruling the ACA constitutional in California v. Texas. The ACA remains a political battleground in the minds of Americans. The politics of the ACA continue to be shaped by perceptions of race and partisanship.

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The Power of a Tweet? Social Media, Presidential Communication, and the Politics of Health

Cited by 6 publications

References 98 publications

Most Americans support minimizing administrative burdens for Medicaid recipients as the public health emergency ends

Most Americans support minimizing administrative burdens for Medicaid recipients as the public health emergency ends

Assessing past and future COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States in light of federal policy changes

Stability and policy threats: US public opinion after a decade of the Affordable Care Act

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