November 2-5, 2009: Health Survey—Nationwide survey of registered voters solicits the public۪s views on Medicaid expansion.
“(Now, I am going to read you a list of proposals related to health care. For each, please tell me, on a scale of 0 to 10, how big a priority that proposal is for you in reforming health care in our country. Zero means it is not at all an important priority for health care reform, and 10 means it is an extremely important priority for health care reform. You can use any number between 0 and 10.)…Expand coverage by making more people eligible for Medicaid, the government-funded program that provides care to low-income families, the disabled, and some elderly.”
23% 10
19% 8-9
15% 6-7
41% 0-5
2% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: . Mean = 6.2.
Survey by Trust for America’s Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research/Public Opinion Strategies, November 2 – November 5, 2009 and based on 1,008 telephone interviews. Sample: national registered voters. [USGREEN.09TAHLTH.R12]
Formal Citation
Health Survey, Nov, 2009. Retrieved Sep-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html