ISSUE GUIDES: Health Care
PUBLIC VIEW: PEOPLE’S CHIEF CONCERNS
- Majorities say health care should be a top priority for Congress, but other issues rank higher
- Cost and access to health care are the most urgent problems in the eyes of the public, compared to 1999 when AIDS and cancer...
- Majorities of Americans say they are dissatisfied with the overall cost of health care in the U.S., but more than half say...
- About half of Americans rate the quality of health care in the U.S. as "good" or better, while overwhelming majorities say...
- Overwhelming majorities of Americans rate their own health insurance as...
- Americans who don’t have insurance are much less satisfied with their own health care
- Six in 10 Americans say they worry "a great deal" about the availability and affordability of health care
- Eight in 10 Americans say they are at least "somewhat concerned" they will have major medical bills in the next few years
- Americans say a number of factors contribute to rising health care costs but say excess profits, malpractice and fraud are...
- Eight in 10 Americans say increased health care expenses have caused them to try to take better care of themselves, while...
- Seven in 10 say drug companies put profits first, but three-quarters say prescription drugs developed over the past 20 years...
- Majorities say a doctor's experience, training, and malpractice record tell them "a lot" about his or her quality
- Six in 10 Americans say patients bring too many lawsuits against doctors and about half say juries award too much money...
- Americans are divided on whether they have a favorable view of HMOs and other managed care plans and many say they don't know
- Nearly half of Americans say they've never heard the term "health savings account"
- Hispanics and blacks are much more likely than whites to say there have been times during the past year when they could not...
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