Healthcare Economist March 7, 2021
Conventional wisdom holds that the U.S. has become more and more partisan and the views of both Democrats and Republicans have become less moderate over time. Is that the case with respect to views on health policy?
A paper in JAMA last week by Blendon et al. (2021) conducted probability-based national surveys on four topics with sample sizes ranging between about 1,000 and 15,000 respondents. A summary of the perspectives of both sides is below.
COVID-19
Despite much of the rhetoric in the news, both Democrats and Republics believe addressing COVID-19 should be a top priority. Both sides highly prioritize not only additional funding for COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and personal protective equipment (PPE), but also economic stimulus and unemployment relief....
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