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  • Non-Voters and Health Reform: Indifference and Confusion Over the New Law

    Perspective

    The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll assessed the role health reform played in voters’1 decisions in the midterm elections and the public’s overall mood towards the health reform law. This blog post focuses on a different group, people who say they are not registered or did not vote in last week’s election, and examines how their views on the health reform law differ from those that said they did vote. As is usually the case,…

  • Kaiser November Tracking Poll Finds Health Care a Factor in Congressional Election, But Not a Dominant One

    Perspective

    This month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted during the four days following the mid-term election, asked voters in an open-ended question to name in their own words the biggest factors influencing their vote for Congress, and found that health care was a factor, but not a dominant one. Among all voters, the factor mentioned most often was the economy/jobs (29%). The next two most mentioned factors were party preference (25%) and views of the candidates…

  • West vs. South: Regional Differences in Views of the Health Reform Law

    Poll Finding

    This Data Note examines regional variations in public opinion of the health reform law based on the November 2010 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. The analysis takes a special look at the Western and Southern regions of the country, where many states are likely to see the biggest increases in coverage under the law, and which stand to be disproportionately eligible for federal Medicaid funds. Despite these similarities in how the two regions might be affected,…

  • Health Reform and the Tea Party Movement

    Feature

    With much media discussion of the role that the Tea Party will play in the upcoming Congressional midterm elections, this data note takes a closer look at Tea Party supporters using the 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 "very" or "somewhat" favorably, 57 percent of Tea Party supporters view the law "very" unfavorably, and another…

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — October 2010

    Feature

    With the November midterm elections just weeks away, Americans remain chronically divided over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but most say that their feelings – pro and con – about the health reform law are not a dominant factor in how they will vote for Congress or whether they will go to the polls. Views on health reform tightened up in October, with 42 percent saying they have favorable views of the new…

  • New Tracking Poll Finds Americans Remain Divided Over Health Law

    Perspective

    With the November midterm elections just weeks away, Americans remain chronically divided over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but most say that their feelings – pro and con -- about the health reform law are not a dominant factor in how they will vote for Congress or whether they will go to the polls, according to the new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. Views on health reform tightened up in October, with 42 percent…

  • KFF Explores Health Reform and the Tea Party Movement

    Perspective

    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…

  • How Popular is the Idea of Repealing Health Reform?

    Poll Finding

    With a number of this fall’s candidates for public office advocating an overturn of the new health reform law, this Data Note takes a closer look at the variety of polls that have attempted to measure the public’s support for repeal. Data Note (.pdf) For an updated look on Americans' views on repealing the Affordable Care Act, see: The Public, Health Care Reform, and Views on Repeal January 2011

  • Role of Government Survey

    Poll Finding

    The Foundation, as part of The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University partnership series, conducted a poll to examine the public's views on the government and its role. The Role of Government Survey is the 20th in a series of surveys dating back to 1995 that have been conducted as part of this partnership project. Toplines (.pdf) Read The Washington Post articles on the survey:Beyond the tea party: What Americans really think of governmentEnergized GOP can…

  • Pulling it Together: A Primer on Health in the Election

    Perspective

    There is a lot of talk in polling and political circles and some speculation in the media about the role of health reform in the midterm elections. We regularly measure what the public thinks about health reform and you see reports from our monthly tracking polls about that. But whether those opinions will translate into an impact on people’s votes in the upcoming election is an entirely different question. First, to understand what might happen in…