Holiday Reminder
Like you, the holidays always make me think about those who are less fortunate. Last year around this time, I wrote a"Holiday Reminder" column about the health reform debate and people's economic difficulties.
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Kaiser December Tracking Poll: Public Remains Divided on Health Reform Law; Significant Number of People Struggle Financially
PerspectiveAs 2010 draws to a close, the latest tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows the public still divided in their views of the health reform law, a sentiment largely unchanged since the law’s enactment in March.
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Kaiser Polling Data Note Finds Regional Differences in Views of Health Reform Law
PerspectiveBased on the November Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, the latest KFF data note examines regional differences in Americans’ views of the new health reform law.
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Non-Voters and Health Reform: Indifference and Confusion Over the New Law
PerspectiveThe latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll assessed the role health reform played in voters’1 decisions in the midterm elections and the public’s overall mood towards the health reform law.
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Pulling it Together: The People Behind The Entitlement Debate
PerspectiveWell before we have any clarity on the impact of the election on health reform, the pundits are handicapping the prospects of efforts to make a serious dent in the national debt and deficit.
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Kaiser November Tracking Poll Finds Health Care a Factor in Congressional Election, But Not a Dominant One
PerspectiveThis month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted during the four days following the mid-term election, asked voters in an open-ended question to name in their own words the biggest factors influencing their vote for Congress, and found that health care was a factor, but not a dominant one.
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New Tracking Poll Finds Americans Remain Divided Over Health Law
PerspectiveWith the November midterm elections just weeks away, Americans remain chronically divided over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but most say that their feelings – pro and con -- about the health reform law are not a dominant factor in how they will vote for Congress or whether they will go to the…
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KFF Explores Health Reform and the Tea Party Movement
PerspectiveWith much media discussion of the role that the Tea Party will play in the upcoming congressional midterm elections, the Kaiser Family Foundation took a closer look at Tea Party supporters using its most recent Health Tracking Poll data from September.
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Pulling it Together: A Primer on Health in the Election
PerspectiveThere is a lot of talk in polling and political circles and some speculation in the media about the role of health reform in the midterm elections. We regularly measure what the public thinks about health reform and you see reports from our monthly tracking polls about that.
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KFF September Tracking Poll Looks at Health Reform and the Elections
PerspectiveThe tug of war for public opinion on health reform continues this month, with approval and disapproval remaining in the same relatively narrow band each has occupied since passage even as favorable views regain a small upper hand, 49 percent favorable vs. 40 percent unfavorable.