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  • Low-Income Adults in New Orleans in 2008: Who Are They and How Are They Faring?

    Poll Finding

    Based on data from Kaiser's Second Post-Katrina Survey, this Survey Brief profiles low-income adults in New Orleans in 2008, examining their demographics, personal recovery from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, worries and concerns, and financial and health care challenges. It finds that low-income adults in New Orleans are more likely than other adults in the city to still be dealing with recovery from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and facing financial and health care challenges.…

  • 2008 Update on Consumers’ Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information

    Poll Finding

    2008 Update on Consumers' Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information An updated examination of consumers' views on health care quality information reveals major challenges remain in providing the public with comparative quality information and encouraging its use. The 2008 Update on Consumers' Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information finds that three in 10 (30%) Americans say they have seen health care quality comparisons of health insurance plans, hospitals, or doctors in the past…

  • 2008 Update on Consumers’ Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information Summary & Chartpack

    Poll Finding

    2008 Update on Consumers' Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information - Summary & Chartpack This summary and chartpack provides an updated examination of consumers' views on health care quality information reveals major challenges remain in providing the public with comparative quality information and encouraging its use. The 2008 Update on Consumers' Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information is based on polling conducted in August among a randomly selected nationally representative sample of 1,517…

  • 2008 Update on Consumers’ Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information – Toplines

    Poll Finding

    2008 Update on Consumers' Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information - Toplines These toplines provide complete survey questions and findings on the updated examination of consumers’ views on health care quality information reveals major challenges remain in providing the public with comparative quality information and encouraging its use. The 2008 Update on Consumers’ Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information is based on polling conducted in August among a randomly selected nationally representative sample…

  • 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…

  • Toplines: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – September 2008

    Poll Finding

    This document contains the topline from the September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll. The poll involved a nationally representative random sample of 1,207 adults (including 1,081 who say they were registered to vote), who were interviewed by telephone between September 8 and 13, 2008. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points and plus or minus 4 percentage points for the sample of all registered…

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

    Poll Finding

    This document contains the key findings from the September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll. The poll involved a nationally representative random sample of 1,207 adults (including 1,081 who say they were registered to vote), who were interviewed by telephone between September 8 and 13, 2008. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points and plus or minus 4 percentage points for the sample of all…

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 — September 2008

    Poll Finding

    The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 finds that health care has crept up in importance as an election issue in recent months among a key voting group: political independents, who ranked it as highly as Democrats did in this poll.  Roughly one in four (26%) independents rank health care as one of the top issues they would "most like to hear the presidential candidates talk about." Health care's importance has risen among independents by…

  • Toplines: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2008

    Poll Finding

    This document contains detailed toplines 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 error…

  • 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…