December 8-13, 2011: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—Nationwide poll on expanding the existing Medicaid program to cover uninsured adults regardless of whether they have children.
(I’m going to read you several elements of the (2010) health reform law. As I read each one, please tell me whether you feel very favorable, somewhat favorable,somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable about it.)…The law will expand the existing Medicaid program to cover low-income, uninsured adults regardless of whether they have children….(Read for first item, then as necessary:) Would you say you feel very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable orvery unfavorable about that?
40% Very favorable
29% Somewhat favorable
14% Somewhat unfavorable
14% Very unfavorable
3% Don’t know/ Refused
Survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Methodology: Conducted byPrinceton Survey Research Associates International, December 8 – December 13,2011 and based on 1,212 telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. 708respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 505 were interviewedon a cell phone, including 285 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.11HTPDEC.R04B]
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KaiserHealth Tracking Poll, Dec, 2011. Retrieved Dec-23-2011 from the iPOLL Databank,The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html