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Manning, Sara. "Black and White Public Opinion Towards a National Health Insurance Plan" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA, Jan 09, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-09-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p212778_index.html>

Manning, S. L. , 2008-01-09 "Black and White Public Opinion Towards a National Health Insurance Plan" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA <Not Available>. 2008-09-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p212778_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Healthcare policy, specifically that regarding a national health insurance plan, is a crucial issue within the United States and public opinion thereof will continue to be critically important to policy efforts. The need for healthcare cuts across all social, ethnic and income cleavages, though the inequality within the American system has created an underclass for those individuals without health insurance (Reeher, 2003). In 2004, 42.1 million (14.6% of the total population) Americans were uninsured, and 29.2 million (10.1% of the total population and 69.4% of the uninsured population) of those had been uninsured for more than a year when interviewed, suggesting that lack of health insurance is a protracted problem (CDC, 2005). Among the uninsured, blacks comprise a disproportionally large percentage. Many people presume blacks will support national insurance because blacks have traditionally supported social service spending. However, the distrust of government intervention established in the public opinion literature provides a theoretical reason to question this assumption of unilateral blacks support. This paper explores the issue of health insurance reform to understand the determinants of public attitudes on national health insurance for both blacks and whites. I utilize American National Election Studies (ANES) survey data for the years 1988-2000 to that end. Initial analyses find that determinants of public opinion vary across black and white racial groups with the trust variable providing the most interesting results.

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