June 15-19, 2011: Pew Research Center Poll—Nationwide poll on the need to reform Medicaid.
“Now thinking about the way some things work in this country…Do you think…the Medicaid system which provides health and long-term care to low income people in this country works pretty well and requires only minor changes, do you think it needs major changes, or do you think it needs to be completely rebuilt?”
39% Works pretty well/only minor changes
37% Major changes
17% Completely rebuilt
8% Don۪t know/Refused
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology:Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, June 15 – June19, 2011 and based on 1,502 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. 1001 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 501 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 200 who had no landline telephone.[USPSRA.070711.R07I]
Formal Citation
Pew Research Center for the People, Jun, 2011. Retrieved Jul-14-2011 from theiPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html