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  • Public Opinion on Gender Rating

    Perspective

    With the Republican presidential primaries wrapping up, a barrage of new television commercials, radio ads, and fundraising emails has marked the start of the general election campaign. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to be a mainstay election topic for candidates from both major parties. While Republicans focus on advocating repeal of the 2010 health care law, President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have concentrated on the benefits of the law. And one lesser…

  • Data Note: A Snapshot of Public Opinion on the Individual Mandate

    Poll Finding

    For the two years since the law's passage, and during the debate leading up to it, the individual mandate has been one of the most controversial aspects of the law. As the lawyers, policy makers, ACA opponents and supporters focus intently on the Supreme Court hearings, this Data Note looks at what the general public thinks of the mandate, explores the reasons why favorability ratings have been so low, and suggests that while opinion on…

  • Americans Remain Divided on Health Reform But Are Confused About The Law And How And When It Will Affect Them

    News Release

    Many Provisions That Take Effect in 2010 Are Popular and Have Bipartisan Support Cable News Tops List of the Public’s “Most Important” Information Sources MENLO PARK, Calif. –The first Kaiser Health Tracking Poll fielded since the passage of health reform last month finds that 8 in 10 Americans know that President Obama signed the legislation  into law.  But 55 percent say they are confused about the law and more than half (56%) say they don’t yet have…

  • The ACA and Fluoridation: The Power of Political Symbols

    Perspective

    In the 1950s, water fluoridation became a public health controversy that morphed into a symbolic issue of larger proportions. For its opponents, fluoridation came to symbolize big government and even for some, a communist threat. The controversy became so odd that it was parodied in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove,” in which General Jack Ripper starts a nuclear war to stop a communist plot to “sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids”…

  • Majority Want No Spending Cuts to Education, Medicare or Social Security

    Feature

    Majority Want No Spending Cuts to Education, Medicare or Social Security Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress (conducted January 3-9, 2013)

  • The Public’s Awareness Of and Concerns About Coronavirus

    Issue Brief

    The February 2020 KFF Health Tracking Poll examines the public's awareness of and concerns about the Coronavirus, following its spread across China and around the globe. The public is concerned about the potential economic and health impacts of the virus on the U.S. and on them and their families. A majority of the public and majorities across partisans say the U.S. is currently doing enough to prevent the spread of the virus.

  • Health Care in the California Democratic Primary: KFF Analysis of AP VoteCast Polling

    Feature

    Health care ranks among the top issues for voters in the Democratic primaries. This slideshow examines the role of health care as an issue in the 2020 California Democratic primary and is based on KFF analysis of AP VoteCast, a survey of California primary voters conducted for the Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago.