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  • Preparedness for A Major Hurricane or Other Emergency

    Poll Finding

    As part of the September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008, the Foundation asked the public what their view was of the recent evacuation process when Hurricane Gustav hit the Louisiana coast on September 1. New Orleans residents and the government bodies that aided them in their evacuation receive high marks for that effort from the American public. Asked to compare what they saw with the response to Hurricane Katrina, two thirds of Americans say…

  • Chartpack: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — April 2009

    Poll Finding

    This document contains the chartpack from the April Health Tracking Poll. The survey was designed and analyzed by public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and was conducted April 2 through April 8, 2009, among a nationally representative random sample of 1,203 adults ages 18 and older. Telephone interviews conducted by landline (902) and cell phone (301, including 98 who had no landline telephone) were carried out in English and Spanish. The margin of…

  • Toplines: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — April 2009

    Poll Finding

    This document contains the toplines from the April Health Tracking Poll. The survey was designed and analyzed by public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and was conducted April 2 through April 8, 2009, among a nationally representative random sample of 1,203 adults ages 18 and older. Telephone interviews conducted by landline (902) and cell phone (301, including 98 who had no landline telephone) were carried out in English and Spanish. The margin of…

  • West vs. South: Regional Differences in Views of the Health Reform Law

    Poll Finding

    This Data Note examines regional variations in public opinion of the health reform law based on the November 2010 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. The analysis takes a special look at the Western and Southern regions of the country, where many states are likely to see the biggest increases in coverage under the law, and which stand to be disproportionately eligible for federal Medicaid funds. Despite these similarities in how the two regions might be affected,…

  • Public Views on Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising

    Poll Finding

    Mollyann Brodie, Kaiser vice president and director of Public Opinion and Media Research, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about the public's views of prescription drugs, the pharmaceutical industry, and direct-to-consumer drug advertising. Brodie's testimony was a part of the hearing titled, "Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Marketing, Education, or Deception?" Testimony (.pdf)

  • Survey of Low-Wage Workers

    Poll Finding

    This survey by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University provides a detailed look at the real life experiences and views of low-wage workers and assesses their financial challenges, including difficulties obtaining and paying for health care, their views about their financial and job situations and their hopes and expectations for the future. The Survey of Low-Wage Workers is the 17th in a series generated under this three-way partnership. The partners worked…

  • New Orleans Three Years After the Storm: The Second Kaiser Post-Katrina Survey, 2008

    Poll Finding

    This comprehensive Kaiser Family Foundation survey of the experiences of New Orleans residents reveals a still-struggling population that gives very mixed reviews in key areas of the recovery efforts. Most residents feel forgotten by the nation and its leaders yet are still optimistic about their city's future. Overall, the study finds about four in 10 residents who lived through the storm report that their lives are still very or somewhat disrupted -- only marginally better…

  • Key Findings: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2008

    Poll Finding

    This document contains the key findings from the August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll. The poll involved a nationally representative random sample of 1,517 adults (including 1,362 who say they were registered to vote), who were interviewed by telephone between July 29 and August 6, 2008. The margin of sampling error for the total sample and for registered voters is plus or minus 3 percentage points. For results based on subgroups, the sampling…

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — August 2009

    Poll Finding

    The August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds a slim majority of Americans continues to favor moving forward on health care reform now despite an intensifying ad war and a political climate of contentious town hall meetings that coincide with rising concerns about the reform effort. 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…

  • Polling on Medicare Premium Support Systems Over Time

    Poll Finding

    This data note reviews years of polling dating to 1995 to gauge public opinion on proposals to change Medicare to a premium support system, an idea embraced by GOP presidential nominee Governor Mitt Romney and rejected by President Obama. Under the proposed change, the federal government would provide people on Medicare a fixed amount of money that could be applied toward the cost of health insurance purchased either from private insurers or the traditional Medicare…