ABSTRACT
Given the importance of health care policy not just in the United States and Canada but across the developed world, it is striking that there are so few studies of the determinants of individuals’ opinions about the health care system. The same is not true of other major policy domains, after all—there are vast literatures on the structure of attitudes on redistributive policy, on macroeconomic policy, and on foreign affairs, for instance. But the literature has thus far spent little time building what we might call a “standard” model of health care policy attitudes.
