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Societal Attitudes Toward AIDS and AIDS-Related Health Insurance Regulations

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 159-163
Robert L. Ohsfeldt and Stephen Gohmann

By examining several correlated of AIDS-related state insurance regulations, we have found that political liberalism and religious fundamentalism, two indicators of societal attitudes toward persons with AIDS, are strongly associated with the promulgation of AIDs-related health insurance regulations within a state. Some types of regulation are also strongly associated with the prevalence of AIDS in the state. Using data for several types of state insurance regulations, we have attempted to assess the relationship between demand by political constituents for insurance regulation and the likelihood that such regulations have been enacted in any given state. We used data for all 50 states for the year 1988. The information on state health insurance regulation was taken from work by Faden and Kass.
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