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Even Among Seniors, Relatively Few Aware That Wealthier Seniors Pay Higher Medicare Premiums 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)
Greater Share Like Preventive Services, MLR Than Are Aware Of Them Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll (conducted August 7-12, 2012)
Majority Of Voters Oppose Changing Medicare To Premium Support System Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll (conducted October 18-23, 2012)
Medicare and Medicaid Personally Important To Majority Of Public 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)
Seniors Most Likely To Say Medicare Is Working Well 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)
Seven in Ten Say Medicare Needs Changes To Stay Sustainable Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll (conducted September 13-19, 2012)
Most Wrongly Believe Uninsured Population Dominated by Unemployed Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation surveys; Sept. 1999 survey by Families USA/Health Insurance Association of America
Most See Delays As Driven By Politics Rather Than Policy MENLO PARK, CA – The latest Kaiser Tracking Poll finds the public still split on health care reform legislation, with 43 percent in favor and 43 percent opposed. However, the poll also finds that majorities of Americans of all political leanings support several provisions in the health reform proposals in Congress and most attribute delays in passing the legislation to political gamesmanship rather than policy…
More than four years after the Affordable Care Act's enactment and more than a month after the close of open enrollment, six in 10 Americans say the health reform law has not had an impact on them or their families, Kaiser’s May Tracking Poll finds. Among those who say it has, Republicans are much more likely to say their families have been hurt by the law than helped, while Democrats are more likely to say…
The Kaiser Health Policy News Index is designed to help journalists and policymakers understand which health policy-related news stories Americans are paying attention to, and what the public understands about health policy issues covered in the news. This month’s Index finds that news about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment numbers was followed by more than half the public, ranking behind two non-health news stories (the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls and the ongoing conflict between…
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