March 5-10, 2013: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—Nationwide poll on the healthcare law and Medicaid
As you may know, the (2010) health care law expands Medicaid to provide health insurance to more low-income uninsured adults. The federal government will initially pay the entire cost of this expansion, and after several years, states will pay 10 percent and the federal government will pay 90 percent. The Supreme Court ruled that states may choose whether or not to participate in this expansion. What do you think your state should do? Do you think your state should keep Medicaid as it is today or expand Medicaid to cover more low-income uninsured people?
41% Keep Medicaid as it is today
52% Expand Medicaid
2% Other/Neither (Vol.)
5% Don۪t Know/Refused
Survey by Henry J. KaiserFamily Foundation. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey ResearchAssociates International, March 5 – March 10, 2013 and based on 1,204 telephoneinterviews. Sample: National adult. 602 respondents were interviewed on alandline telephone, and 602 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 315 whohad no landline telephone. [USPSRA.13HTPMAR.R15]
(Next, 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 provide financial help to low and moderate income Americans who don’t get insurance through their jobs to help them purchase coverage.
42% Very Favorable
34% Somewhat Favorable
13% Somewhat Unfavorable
9% Very Unfavorable
2% Don۪t Know/Refused
Survey by Henry J. KaiserFamily Foundation. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey ResearchAssociates International, March 5 – March 10, 2013 and based on 1,204 telephoneinterviews. Sample: National adult. 602 respondents were interviewed on alandline telephone, and 602 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 315 whohad no landline telephone. [USPSRA.13HTPMAR.R13C]
(Next, 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 give states the option of expanding their existing Medicaid program to cover more low-income, uninsured adults.
36% Very Favorable
35% Somewhat Favorable
13% Somewhat Unfavorable
14% Very Unfavorable
3% Don۪t Know/Refused
Survey by Henry J. KaiserFamily Foundation. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey ResearchAssociates International, March 5 – March 10, 2013 and based on 1,204 telephoneinterviews. Sample: National adult. 602 respondents were interviewed on alandline telephone, and 602 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 315 whohad no landline telephone. [USPSRA.13HTPMAR.R13H]<?xml:namespace prefix = o />
Formal Citation
Kaiser Health TrackingPoll, Mar, 2013. Retrieved Apr-16-2013 from the iPOLL Databank, The RoperCenter for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut.http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html