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  • Views of Health Insurance Companies

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    Views of Health Insurance Companies Tilt Negative, But More Favorable Toward Your Own Insurance Company – POLLING Download

  • KFF/Harvard Survey on Public’s Health Care Agenda for the 112th Congress Finds An Uptick in Public Opposition to Health Reform As GOP Ramped Up Repeal Campaign

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    Though the public remains divided on health reform overall, according to a new survey jointly conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health, opposition to the new law ticked upward in January from 41 percent to 50 percent as Republicans ramped up efforts to repeal it. The survey also showed that there is no groundswell of public support for overturning the law, with 47 percent wanting to either expand the law…

  • May Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Views of Health Reform Law Remain Unchanged

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    This month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll reveals little change in public opinion about the health reform law. Americans remain divided overall, with 42 percent having a favorable opinion of the law and 44 percent viewing it unfavorably. Three in ten continue to want to see the law expanded, while roughly one in five want it either kept as is (21%), repealed and replaced with a GOP alternative (19%), or repealed outright (19%). Americans continue to…

  • Uninsured Are Less Satisfied

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    Given that people without health insurance have no protection from health care costs, it is not surprising that they are much less likely to say they are satisfied with costs than those with insurance (31 percent vs. 68 percent Majorities of both the uninsured and insured report being satisfied with the quality of care they receive, but the differences are still striking. Six in ten of the uninsured say they are satisfied with their quality…

  • Health Affairs Issue Focuses on Health Reform

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    The June 2010 issue of the journal Health Affairs is dedicated to health reform, and "begins to tackle the hundreds of implementation issues inherent in health reform and offers prescriptions for averting trouble," according to Editor-in-Chief Susan Dentzer. The issue features an article by Kaiser researchers examining past and present polling related to reform and showing how a surprisingly stable public opinion tracked with historic patterns, even if the contentious public debate suggested a volatile…

  • Confusion Declines, but Remains Widespread in KFF May Tracking Poll

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    Confusion over the new health reform law declined but remains widespread, with 44 percent of the public saying they were confused in May, compared to 55 percent in April. Moreover, more than a third of Americans (35%) say they do not understand what the impact of the law will be on themselves and their families, while 61 percent report feeling they do understand what that impact will be. Americans continue to report getting information about…

  • KFF Explores Health Reform and the Tea Party Movement

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    With 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. While 57 percent of voters who do not support the Tea Party movement view the health reform law favorably, 57 percent of Tea Party supporters view the law "very" unfavorably, and another 11 percent…

  • KFF September Tracking Poll Looks at Health Reform and the Elections

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    The 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. Opinion is more closely divided among this fall’s likely voters (46 percent vs. 45 percent), and opponents of the law continue to hold their views more emphatically than supporters. Meanwhile,…

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: March 2015

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    As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marks its fifth anniversary, this month’s poll finds the gap between favorable and unfavorable opinions of the law has narrowed to the closest margin in over two years. Although the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the King v. Burwell case in early March, the majority of the public continues to say they have heard only a little or nothing at all about the case. The survey also includes…

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Late June 2015 – A Special Focus On The Supreme Court Decision

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    The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that when told that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to keep the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it is, allowing subsidies to be provided to low- and moderate-income people in all states regardless of who runs their Marketplace, about 6 in 10 say they approve of the decision while about a third disapprove. The King v. Burwell ruling does not appear to have had an immediate effect on…