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HEALTH CARE PRIORITIZED HIGH BY AMERICANS
Survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, "Health Priorities Survey: The Medical System and the Uninsured".
Americans rank health care as the second highest public priority, behind the economy. Thirty-one percent of survey respondents ranked health care as one of the two most important issues for the government to address. Sixty-nine percent of Americans rate the nation’s system for providing medical care as "fair" or "poor", while only 20 percent believe the system is "good" and eight percent see it as "excellent". Six in 10 Americans cite health care costs as one of the top two problems in medical care, while four in 10 Americans rank the lack of health insurance or access to care as the top problem.
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KAISER FAMILY FUND TRACKING POLL FINDS AMERICANS STILL WANT REFORM
Kaiser Family Fund Tracking Poll, Aug 2009
Even in late August 2009, after weeks of contentious debate and talk-show-host hysteria, a slim majority of Americans continued to favor moving forward on health care reform despite the intensifying ad war and a political climate, according to the August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. Fifty-three percent of the public believes that tackling health reform is more important than ever, compared to 42 percent who say we cannot afford to take on health care reform right now. The gap between those points of view has narrowed in recent months as criticisms and doubts about reform plans seem to be registering.
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AMERICANS ARE REALLY WORRIED
Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, August 2009
In a study released in Aug 2009, 51.9% of Americans were worried that they would not be able to pay for future health care needs if they had a serious illness, 47.1% worried that they would not be able to afford all routine health care services, 35.6% worried that they would not be able to afford prescriptions, 29.6% said that they were worried that they would go bankrupt from not being able to pay their medical bills and 20.1% reported that a family member had already delayed needed medical care in the last 12 months due to the cost.
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HEALTH CARE SYSTEM NEEDS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE
cited in Truthout Original "Is Health Care Reform on Life Support?" blog of Thursday 13 August 2009 by: Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
In a New York Times/CBS News poll taken in June 2009, 85% of respondents said the health care system needed to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt. According to a June poll conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 83% favored and only 14% opposed "creating a new public health insurance plan that anyone can
purchase."
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CANDIDATES AND HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE
Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2008
In June of 2008 respondents were asked these two questions: 1) The presidential candidates have proposed different approaches to improving the health care system in the U.S. Which of the following comes closest to your view? AND 2) When thinking about health insurance coverage in this country, which of the following comes closer to your view? In answering the first 56% stated that the main goal of the presidential efforts should be to make sure that EVERYONE is covered by health insurance, while only
41 said the main goal should be to make health insurance more available and affordable in the private marketplace, even if everyone doesn't get covered. In answer to the second 59% responded that we need to get everyone into the same insurance pool so we can spread the costs of sick and healthy people over the whole population, while only 32% said that healthier people should not be asked to pay more to subsidize sicker people by being in the same insurance pool with them.
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WASHINGTON DC SHOULD PROVIDE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE
A CBS News/New York Times Poll. Jan. 2009. as cited by "sustainable middle class" asked "Should the government in Washington provide national health insurance, or is this something that should be left only to private enterprise?": Government: 59%; Private Enterprise: 32%; Unsure: 9%
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DOCS FAVOR SINGLE-PAYER FOR USA Annals of Internal Medicine April 2008
Fully 59% of physicians back a single-payer system.
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NEEDS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES, COMPLETE REBUILD Pew Research Center, 2009
Fully 71% of Americans feel that the US needs "fundamental changes" or to have the US health system "completely rebuilt", compared to just 24% who wish only for "minor changes".
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FAVOR INCREASE IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S INFLUENCE CNN Opinion Poll May 29, 2009
In May 2009 63% of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion survey said they would favor an increase in the federal government's influence over their own health care plans in an attempt to lower costs and provide coverage to more Americans; 36% were opposed. The poll also suggests that slightly more than six out of 10 think the government should guarantee health care for all Americans. Forty-seven percent of those questioned support raising taxes in order to provide health insurance to all Americans.
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