Preparedness for A Major Hurricane or Other Emergency September 30, 2008 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…
Toplines: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – September 2008 September 30, 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…
Key Findings: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – September 2008 September 30, 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…
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 — September 2008 September 30, 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…
Toplines: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2008 August 18, 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…
Key Findings: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2008 August 18, 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…
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 — August 2008 August 18, 2008 Poll Finding The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll finds that one in four (24%) Americans continues to struggle with paying for health care. Health care ranks as a “serious problem” above paying for food (18%), problems with debt (16%), and paying the rent or mortgage (15%) and below paying…
Survey of Low-Wage Workers August 1, 2008 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…
Chartpack: New Orleans Three Years After the Storm: The Second Kaiser Post-Katrina Survey, 2008 July 31, 2008 Poll Finding This chartpack provides key findings from the second comprehensive Kaiser Family Foundation survey of New Orleans residents’ experiences and views as the city rebuilds after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaches that devastated huge sections in August 2005. By providing an over-time assessment of residents’ experiences, priorities, goals and…
Report: New Orleans Three Years After the Storm: The Second Kaiser Post-Katrina Survey, 2008 July 31, 2008 Poll Finding This comprehensive Kaiser Family Foundation survey is the second of at least three that the Foundation will conduct to track New Orleans residents’ experiences and views as the city rebuilds after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaches that devastated huge sections in August 2005. By providing an over-time assessment…