The Supreme Court has become a more partisan institution in recent decades, more closely resembling the other branches of government than it once did. This week will start to show just how partisan the court has become. On Wednesday, it will hear arguments in the latest challenge to the health […] Read more »
Public sees ill health as resulting from broad range of causes
A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll finds that more than six in ten people living in the U.S. (62%) are concerned about their future health. Nearly four in ten (39%) said that they had one or more negative childhood experiences that they believe […] Read more »
Conservatives are more likely to believe that vaccines cause autism
In the recent political flare-up about vaccines, a persistent topic of debate is how attitudes toward vaccines are shaped by political ideology. Some research finds little association between perceptions of vaccine risk and political ideology — suggesting that vaccines are less politicized than many other scientific issues. But a recent […] Read more »
More than measles: The threat to America’s ‘herd immunity’
… All these demonstrable facts makes reviewing the February 2015 Reuters American Insights poll on vaccines simultaneously reassuring, disturbing and potentially dangerous to the public’s health. The most disturbing poll finding centered on the importance people place on politicians’ views on the subject. Politicians have been coming out of the woodwork […] Read more »
Arkansas, Kentucky See Most Improvement in Uninsured Rates
Arkansas and Kentucky reported the sharpest reductions in their uninsured rates among adult residents since the healthcare law’s requirement to have insurance took effect at the beginning of 2014. Oregon, Washington and West Virginia round out the top five. Of the 11 states with the greatest reductions, 10 expanded Medicaid […] Read more »
Majority of Americans want vaccines to be required as measles outbreak grows
A new CNN/ORC poll shows nearly 8 of 10 Americans believe parents should be required to vaccinate their healthy children against preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella and polio. If the children are not vaccinated, most agree the child should not be allowed to attend public school or day […] Read more »