Most Americans believe that the prices of brand-name prescription drugs have become unreasonable, and their dismay is leading to wide support for government action to keep costs down, including letting Medicare negotiate prices with drug companies, according to a new poll by STAT and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of […] Read more »
Americans With Government Health Plans Most Satisfied
Americans’ satisfaction with the way the healthcare system works for them varies by the type of insurance they have. Satisfaction is highest among those with veterans or military health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and is lower among those with employer-paid and self-paid insurance. Americans with no health insurance are least […] Read more »
Majorities Favor Status Quo Over Structural Changes to Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 30, 1965 in a bipartisan effort to provide health insurance coverage for low-income, disabled, and elderly Americans. In their 50 year history, each of these programs has come to play a key role in providing health coverage […] Read more »
Long-Term Care in America: Americans’ Outlook and Planning for Future Care
In the next 25 years, the U.S. population is expected to include 82 million Americans over the age of 65, the vast majority of whom will require some type of long-term care as they age. Policymakers, health care systems, and families are all facing the question of how to provide […] Read more »
Obamacare, Hands Off My Medicare
A number of factors underpin the anti-redistributionist shift in public opinion that I wrote about last week. First, and perhaps most important, is the emergence of significant resistance to downward redistribution among the elderly, a major voting bloc. CONT. Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times Read more »
Support for redistribution in an age of rising inequality
Despite the large increases in economic inequality since 1970, American survey respondents exhibit no increase in support for redistribution, in contrast to the predictions from standard theories of redistributive preferences. We replicate these results but further demonstrate substantial heterogeneity by demographic groups. In particular, the two groups who have most […] Read more »