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Polling
By Nearly a 2-1 Margin, Parents Prefer to Wait to Open Schools to Minimize COVID Risk
Parents overwhelmingly prefer that schools wait to restart in-person classes to reduce infection risk rather than open sooner so parents can work and students can return to the classroom, but many, especially parents of color, see dangers either way.
- Health Reform
Tracking Public Opinion on National Health Plan: Interactive
This interactive allows users to track public opinion on a national health plan using all nationally representatives polls conducted since 2016, with further analysis of how favorability toward such a plan may differ based on political party identification and question wording.
- Affordable Care Act
The Public’s Views on the ACA
This interactive chart allows users to track public opinion on the Affordable Care Act, from the inception of the law to the present, for subgroups based on age, race, income, gender, party identification and insurance status.
- stds
Public Knowledge and Attitudes About Sexually Transmitted Infections
A new KFF poll provides new data on the public’s knowledge and attitudes about sexually transmitted infections and finds majorities of the public unaware of how common STIs are among adults in the U.S.
- medicaid
Data Note: 5 Charts About Public Opinion on Medicaid
A quick look at the public’s view of Medicaid, the government health insurance and long-term care program for low-income adults and children, from recent KFF polls. - Health Costs
Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs
This data note summarizes the most recent Kaiser Family Foundation polling on the public’s experiences with and worries about health care costs. - Medicare-for-all
Public Opinion on Single-Payer, National Health Plans, and Expanding Access to Medicare
This slideshow captures trend data and key findings from our polling on Medicare-for-all, a public option and other national plans aimed at expanding public coverage.
- Health Costs
An Examination of Surprise Medical Bills and Proposals to Protect Consumers from Them
This analysis examines how often patients get hit with surprise medical bills, what circumstances tend to give rise to them and what proposals are being considered to protect consumers from this problem.
- tracking poll
Health Tracking Poll
Our signature survey project provides up-to-date data on the public’s health care views, knowledge, and experiences. - interactive
Poll Question Finder
Search all KFF polls since 1992 by keyword and date to find full question wording and results.
- polling
Transparency Initiative
KFF is a charter member of the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers’ transparency initiative. - Charts & Slides
Polling Chart Collections
From single payer to prescription drugs to women’s health, polling chart packs assemble our recent polling on a variety of topics. - affordable care act
Views of the ACA
This interactive captures trends in the public’s views of the ACA since 2010 for different demographic groups.