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Health Care Reform: Seizing the Moment and Shaping the Message
Publication Date: November 2008
Publisher(s): Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy; Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Author(s): John Bouman; Robert Crittenden
Funder(s): John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Funder(s): John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Series: Vol. 42, nos. 7-8
Special Collection: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Topic: Health (Health services for low income people)
Keywords: communications; health care; health care reform
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Health care reform has been a prominent issue in the electoral campaign. A consensus is that the current system offers too little coverage for too much money. But proposals to improve the system can easily sink into a political and rhetorical quagmire. Nonetheless, ensuring that every American has access to health care has become a core moral value for voters. Advocates should tap into this value system and frame their messages to avoid the barriers that have blocked past reform efforts.