Abstract
AbstractUsing two national general population and one clergy survey, we examined racial differences in the association between religious theology and health care policy attitudes. We find that controlling for religious faith, political partisanship, and social-demographic characteristics, religious theology more strongly associates with White health care policy attitudes than it is for Blacks and Hispanics. Whereas theologically liberal Whites are more likely than their conservative counterparts to support universal healthcare and/or Obamacare, we observed no such relationship among Blacks and Hispanics. This is true of both the general population and clergy.
Highlights
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed his signature legislation, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; Obamacare)
We report predicted probability estimates based upon logit regression analyses to examine the association between religious beliefs and identity with health care policy attitudes while controlling for political party, religious faith, and social-demographic characteristics
This study suggests that religious beliefs and identity play a statistically stronger role in associating with White health care policy attitudes than it does for Blacks and Hispanics
Summary
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed his signature legislation, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; Obamacare). It is quite likely that persons who share the religious belief system of groups like Faithful Reform in Health Care (2019), and believe they are called by God to challenge individuals and institutions that exploit the poor and powerless are more likely than individuals that reject this premise to support policies aimed at providing more affordable health insurance. Religious liberals are considerably more likely than conservatives to believe that, “In the Bible, when Jesus and prophets talked about taking care of the poor, they were primarily talking about their obligation to create a just society” (Jones et al 2013) Given these theological differences, it is plausible that individuals who identify as the religious left or religious liberals are more likely than their conservative counterparts on the right to believe that promoting equality and fairness and providing a public safety net for people who are facing hardships are important moral guides for government policy. We report predicted probability estimates based upon logit regression analyses to examine the association between religious beliefs and identity with health care policy attitudes while controlling for political party, religious faith, and social-demographic characteristics.
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