A month ahead of the midterm elections, voters choose the economy (34 percent) as the most important issue that will decide their vote for Congress. Health care comes in second (17 percent), closely followed by terrorism (16 percent). Both Republicans and Democrats choose the economy as the top issue. CONT. […] Read more »
One-Fifth of Americans Worry About Getting Ebola
Twenty-two percent of Americans say they worry about getting the Ebola virus, matching or exceeding the number of U.S. adults who worried about contracting the H1N1 virus throughout its 2009 outbreak, despite the higher prevalence of H1N1 in the U.S. CONT. Andrew Dugan, Gallup Read more »
Most Are Confident in Government’s Ability to Prevent Major Ebola Outbreak in U.S.
As the Ebola outbreak in Africa continues, and two patients receive treatment in the U.S., most Americans have at least a fair amount of confidence in the government’s ability to prevent a major outbreak of Ebola in the U.S. In addition, relatively few are concerned that they or a family […] Read more »
Beyond the Election: Americans’ Priorities for Their Elected Representatives
Much of the focus of pollsters and public opinion experts this election season is on the question of who is going to win control of the House and the Senate. Who is going to win is important, but a more lasting concern is what the public thinks the House and […] Read more »
New Estimates on Health Coverage Are Accurate but Outdated
The federal government released some very reliable estimates of how many people had health insurance in the first three months of 2014. But the data won’t tell us much about how many people got insurance through the Affordable Care Act. CONT. Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times Read more »
Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Falls, Survey Shows
Federal researchers reported on Tuesday that the number of Americans without health insurance had declined substantially in the first quarter of this year, the first federal measure of the number of uninsured Americans since the Affordable Care Act extended coverage to millions of people in January. … The findings were […] Read more »