DATA VAULT A Nation Divided
AS HEALTH CARE COSTS CONTINUE TO SOAR AND INSURANCE COVERAGE WANES, HEALTH CARE REFORM REMAINS ONE OF THE CENTRAL ISSUES THIS ELECTION YEAR.
ACCORDING TO THE LATEST DATA, AMERICANS HAVE DIVERSE VIEWS OF WHAT HEALTH CARE SHOULD LOOK LIKE IN THE UNITED STATES.
T Favorable Public opinion of the Affordable Care Act
HE KAISER FAMILY Foundation's May 2012 Health Tracking Poll saw favorable public opinion of the Affordable Care Act
(ACA) drop five points since March 2010, marking the fi rst time those with unfavorable views (44%) of the ACA outnumbered those with favorable ones (37%). Since the ACA was passed in 2010, both Democrats and Republicans have expressed varying degrees of favorability of the law. ■
2010 2011
Currently, three in 10 Americans have government health insurance.
31% 30 | Mid Hudson MD NEWS ■ MDNEWS.COM of women
wide-scale effort to limit women's reproductive health choices
and contraception. Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Poll
and services in America including abortion, family planning
believe there is a
No 28% 2007 Source: Gallup Poll
Is it the government's responsibility to ensure all Americans have health care coverage?
Yes 69%
No 46%
2011 ?
100 % 75% 50% 25% 0%
2012 Yes50%
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