Some great and relevant commentary. Why do people think the way they do on Obamacare? Does it come down to self-interest, or perhaps thr cues they receive from the political elites they identify with?
These are based on a recently published article: Playing Fair: Fairness Beliefs and Health Policy Preferences in the United States
From John Sides: I’ve heard commentators opine on whether people’s attitudes toward the ACA will grow more favorable with time, once they see that it helps them in various ways. This presupposes that people’s attitudes about health care reform are predicated on self-interest. I’ve been dubious, and Lynch and Gollusk provide some confirmation. Health care opinions are really based on things that don’t change very much: partisanship, ideology, values.
Perhaps though people are just turned off by the process, not the law itself.
