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October 18-23, 2012: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — Nationwide poll on Medicaid and the election.

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Which (2012) presidential(election) candidate, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, do you trust to do a better job…determiningthe future of the Medicaid program?

47%                          Barack Obama

35%                          Mitt Romney

1%                            Both (Vol.)

9%                            Neither/Other(Vol.)

8%                            Don۪t Know/Refused

Survey by Henry J. Kaiser FamilyFoundation. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research AssociatesInternational, October 18 – October 23, 2012 and based on 1,215 telephoneinterviews. Sample: National adult. 704 respondents were interviewed on alandline telephone, and 511 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 282 whohad no landline telephone. Interviews were conducted by Braun Research.[USPSRA.12HTPOCT.R06E]

(Thinking ahead to the November(2012) election, please tell me how important each of the following will be inyour vote for President.)…Medicaid, the government health insurance and longterm care program for certain low-income adults and children…Will that beextremely important, very important, somewhat important, or less important than that?

31%                          Extremely important

36%                          Very important

23%                          Somewhat important

9%                            Less important

2%                            Don۪t know/Refused

Subpopulation/Note: Asked of FormA half sample.

Survey by Henry J. Kaiser FamilyFoundation. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research AssociatesInternational, October 18 – October 23, 2012 and based on 1,215 telephoneinterviews. Sample: National adult. 704 respondents were interviewed on alandline telephone, and 511 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 282 whohad no landline telephone. Interviews were conducted by Braun Research.[USPSRA.12HTPOCT.R01C]

Formal Citation

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, Oct,2012. Retrieved Nov-30-2012 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for PublicOpinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html

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