The Kaiser Family Foundation conducts a poll every month specifically addressing health care and health insurance. What they discover in this poll is a look inside how people are feeling right now about the health industry, and it gives a pretty good idea how folks are on health reform.
As reported by Medical News Today, the results from the April poll are: 36% didn’t go to dentist or doctor check ups because of the cost increases, 71% want taxes raised for high income Americans in order to pay for health care reform, 59% expressed that health care reform has become more necessary now, 26% had an individual in their home who had a hard time paying medical bills this past year, and 67% strongly or somewhat favor a nationalized health insurance plan to create competition for the private plans.
This appears to indicate that the opinion of the citizens is shifting toward more intense movement on health care reform now. And many more Americans are suffering under the burden of cost increases in health care.
The lawmakers who are ready to send the health care reform through the process are very happy with these results. As the Kaiser poll indicates, there will be support from the majority, and with this support will be ability for them to push the sweeping reform through the process.
Of course, this is not a done deal due to this poll. It’s a glimpse of how the public feels right now, but opinion is always subject to change quickly, as the economic issues change day to day. Also there is the issue of the Democrats and the Republicans trying to agree on how the reform will work.
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