Mollyann Brodie is senior vice president for executive operations and executive director of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, where she has worked since 1995. Her responsibilities include the monthly Kaiser Health Tracking poll and survey partnerships with The Washington Post, CNN, and NPR. Brodie’s research focuses on understanding public opinion and knowledge on health care policy issues and the role of opinion in health policy debates. Her work has been published in the JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, and Health Affairs. Brodie is immediate past president of the American Association of Public Opinion Research.
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White working-class voters without a college education are most vulnerable to diseases of despair — suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related liver disease — and they are a...