US: Health Care (AARP 8/12-13)
Emily Swanson | August 27, 2009
AARP / Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates (D)
8/12-13/09; 1,000 adults, 3.1% margin of error
Mode: Internet
(PSB: release, toplines)
To what degree do you favor or oppose the following health care proposals?
Making insurance available to everyone regardless of their health history
86% Favor, 11% Oppose
Starting a new federal health insurance plan that individuals could purchase if they can't afford private plans offered to them
79% Favor, 18% Oppose
Keeping health insurance mainly a private industry but allowing the government to serve as an industry watchdog to help expand coverage and keep an eye on costs
62% Favor, 32% Oppose
Requiring everyone to either accept employer-provided health insurance or purchase a health insurance policy
45% Favor, 48% Oppose
Do you favor or oppose using the following things to raise money to fund health care improvements?
Limiting the deductions that higher-income people can claim on their income tax returns
72% Favor, 23% Oppose
Taxing employers that do not provide health insurance to their employees
68% Fsavor, 29% Oppose
Taxing employees who receive more than the average amount of health care benefits from their employees
34% Favor, 60% Oppose
Looking for savings in the current Medicare system to pay for health care reform
68% Favor, 27% oppose
By Emily Swanson | August 27, 2009 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)
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On that 2nd question, I bet if you replaced "federal" with "government" plan, the numbers would be significantly lower.
Rack this up to the continuing ambiguity of health care polls. There's amazing consensus for reform, and large support for an increased government role in health care. But other polls indicate people don't trust the government or Obama to accomplish this, even though they want greater government involvement.
Posted on August 27, 2009 6:43 PM
@Aaron
"Federal" is actually a hell of a lot more specific than "government."
Posted on August 27, 2009 8:03 PM
@Aaron_in_TX
I'd like to see the principal components of the consensus that you site. That is, I'd like to see the (1) support for healthcare change (2) support for government involvement and (3) suspicion of government separated out. Maybe we could get some clarity, then.
I'd also like to see some Tversky-Kahneman Game theory around how much deficit is acceptable to achieve what level of coverage for the uninsured.
Posted on August 30, 2009 6:06 PM
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