Americans want the government to crack down hard on drug pricing. That is, until they consider the potential side effects of using public sector muscle to rein in the pharmaceutical industry. A new POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll finds that Republicans and Democrats alike overwhelmingly support the […] Read more »
Naples, Florida, Metro Tops U.S. in Well-Being for Third Time
For the third straight year, the Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, Florida, metro area has the highest well-being across 186 U.S. communities, based on data collected in 2016 and 2017 as part of the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. Barnstable Town, Massachusetts; Boulder, Colorado; Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California; and Charlottesville, Virginia, round out the top five […] Read more »
Obamacare Polls Offer Lessons
In terms of ideology, it’s fascinating how sorted out the two political parties have become. The days of conservative-leaning Democrats having a strong and moderating voice in their party, just as liberal-leaning Republicans used to have in theirs, are long gone. This has effectively pushed the Democratic Party to the […] Read more »
The Health-Care Gap Between Red and Blue America
The battle over health care is moving to the states. The most immediate effect of the recent steps taken by Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to unravel the Affordable Care Act will be to create an even deeper gulf between red and blue states in the availability and quality of […] Read more »
Health Care and the 2018 Midterms; Attitudes Towards Proposed Changes to Medicaid
Medicaid continues to be seen favorably by a majority of the public (74 percent) and about half (52 percent) believe the Medicaid program is working well for most low-income people covered by the program. … The February Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds a slight increase in the share of the […] Read more »
Americans’ Views on Health Insurance at the End of a Turbulent Year
About one-third (36%) of Americans who have health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces and 27 percent of people with Medicaid are pessimistic they will be able to keep their coverage in the future. Of those, nearly half point to the federal government as the main source of their […] Read more »