2008 Update on Consumers’ Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information Summary & Chartpack September 30, 2008 Poll Finding 2008 Update on Consumers’ Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information – Summary & ChartpackThis summary and chartpack provides an updated examination of consumers’ views on health care quality information reveals major challenges remain in providing the public with comparative quality information and encouraging its use. The 2008 Update on…
Preparedness for A Major Hurricane or Other Emergency September 30, 2008 Poll Finding As part of the September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008, the Foundation asked the public what their view was of the recent evacuation process when Hurricane Gustav hit the Louisiana coast on September 1. New Orleans residents and the government bodies that aided them in their evacuation receive high…
Toplines: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – September 2008 September 30, 2008 Poll Finding This document contains the topline from the September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll. The poll involved a nationally representative random sample of 1,207 adults (including 1,081 who say they were registered to vote), who were interviewed by telephone between September 8 and 13, 2008. The margin of sampling…
Key Findings: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – September 2008 September 30, 2008 Poll Finding This document contains the key findings from the September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll. The poll involved a nationally representative random sample of 1,207 adults (including 1,081 who say they were registered to vote), who were interviewed by telephone between September 8 and 13, 2008. The margin of…
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 — September 2008 September 30, 2008 Poll Finding The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 finds that health care has crept up in importance as an election issue in recent months among a key voting group: political independents, who ranked it as highly as Democrats did in this poll. Roughly one in four (26%) independents rank health…
Pulling It Together: What Do We Want Health Insurance To Be? September 26, 2008 Perspective Trends in the health insurance marketplace show substantial growth in high deductible health plans, especially among smaller firms, where 35% of workers are now covered by plans with a deductible of $1,000 or more. That’s according to our recently released employer health benefits survey, which we have been conducting now…
Hollywood & Health: Health Content in Entertainment Television August 31, 2008 Event While the American public obtains content in a multimedia environment ranging from so called old media like newspapers to new media like blogs and online social networks, television maintains the ability to reach millions of people with relative ease. Popular primetime television’s primary purpose is to entertain the audience, but…
Toplines: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2008 August 18, 2008 Poll Finding This document contains detailed toplines from the August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll. The poll involved a nationally representative random sample of 1,517 adults (including 1,362 who say they were registered to vote), who were interviewed by telephone between July 29 and August 6, 2008. The margin of…
Key Findings: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2008 August 18, 2008 Poll Finding This document contains the key findings from the August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll. The poll involved a nationally representative random sample of 1,517 adults (including 1,362 who say they were registered to vote), who were interviewed by telephone between July 29 and August 6, 2008. The margin…
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 — August 2008 August 18, 2008 Poll Finding The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll finds that one in four (24%) Americans continues to struggle with paying for health care. Health care ranks as a “serious problem” above paying for food (18%), problems with debt (16%), and paying the rent or mortgage (15%) and below paying…