September 8-13, 2008: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008—Nationwide Poll Includes Three Questions on Health Reform Plans, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children۪s Health Insurance Program
“Thinking again about the issues in the (2008) presidential (election) campaign…Based on what you know or have heard, whose health reform plan–John McCain’s or Barack Obama’s–would be better for…low-income people?”
63% Obama۪s plan
17% McCain۪s plan
1% Both (Vol.)
4% Neither (Vol.)
15% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: .
Survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, September 8 – September 13, 2008 and based on 1,207 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. [USPSRA.100108HTP.R07A]
Formal Citation
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008, Sep, 2008. 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
“Of those options you just said you favored, which one do you most prefer? Is it…requiring employers to either offer health insurance or pay money into a government pool, having all Americans get their insurance from a single government plan, expanding Medicare to those uninsured who are aged 55 to 64, offering tax breaks to businesses that do offer health insurance, requiring all Americans to have health insurance, with tax credits or other aid to help those who can’t afford it, offering tax credits to help people buy private health insurance, or expanding state government programs for low-income people?”