April 9-14, 2010: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—Nationwide poll solicits the public۪s perceptions of the relationship between the 2010 health reform bill, Medicaid, and health insurance for low-income Americans.
“(I’m going to read you a list of specific reform proposals. For each, please tell me whether you think it was included in the health reform bill recently passed by Congress and signed into law by the president (Barack Obama March 2010), or not.) To the best of your knowledge, would you say the law will or will not…expand the existing Medicaid program to cover low-income, uninsured adults regardless of whether they have children?”
64% Yes, law will do this
16% No, will not do this
20% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form A half sample.
Survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, April 9 – April 14, 2010 and based on 1,208 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. 801 respondents were interviewed by landline telephones, and 407 were interviewed by cell phones, including 171 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.10HTPAPR.R08F]
Formal Citation
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, Apr, 2010. Retrieved Sep-2-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html
“As far as you know, will that provision (in the health reform bill recently signed into law March 2010) begin taking effect this year, next year, 3 or 4 years from now, or further in the future than that?…Expand the existing Medicaid program to cover low-income, uninsured adults regardless of whether they have children”