Health Care Update Archive

Health Care Promises To Be Sizable Voting Issue in 2020

Voters continue to criticize the quality of health care in America and rate cost reduction as a key reform. Health care is also shaping up as a critical voting issue again next year.

Voters Critical of U.S. Health Care But Not The Care They Receive

Voters remain much more critical of the U.S. health care system than they are of the care they receive from it. While much of the world turns to America for advanced medicine, voters here aren’t so sure we have anything special to offer.

Health Care Is a Major Voting Issue in Midterm Elections

Health care is a major factor when it comes to whom voters will choose at the ballot this midterm election, but they continue to look to the free market, not the government, to solve the woes of rising health care costs.

Voters Like Their Health Care, But Not The System

Most voters continue to give the health care they receive a positive rating, but few hold the nation’s health care system in high regards.

Voters Say Health Care Good for Them, Bad in General

Voters still give the health care they receive high marks but are more critical of the U.S. health care system than ever.

Support for Single-Payer Health Care Continues To Grow

Bernie Sanders and 16 Democratic senators have presented a new single-payer health care plan to Congress.

Voters Like Obamacare More, But Still Expect Cost Hikes

Obamacare remains the law of the land, but President Trump is calling for repeal after Republicans failed to move a replacement bill through the Senate.

Voters Still Support Allowing Health Insurance To Be Sold Across State Lines

There’s even stronger support for House Republicans’ proposal to allow Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines, but voters remain divided on proposed reforms for medical liability and malpractice.

Voters Like Their Health Care, But Still Want Law Fixes

As President Trump and the Republicans’ new health care plan makes its way through the Senate, voters admit they like the health care they’re currently receiving but still see the need to fix Obamacare.

Voters Still Put Lower Costs Over Health Insurance Mandate

As Congress begins debating ways to change the failing Obamacare system, voters feel more strongly than ever that reducing health care costs is more important than mandating health insurance coverage for everyone.

Most Voters Now Favor Piece-by-Piece Fix of Obamacare

With a new Congress and a new president intent on repealing Obamacare, more voters than ever are calling for fixing it rather than throwing it out completely. Most expect major changes in the trouble-plagued national health care law in the near future, though.

Support for Changes in Obamacare Reaches New High

Open enrollment for 2017 under President Obama’s health care law began yesterday, but insurance premiums are expected to skyrocket in many parts of the country. Voters overwhelmingly favor changes in Obamacare, with more voters than ever calling for its outright repeal.

Voters Doubt More Than Ever That Obamacare Will Reduce Health Care Costs

Voters still tend to view the national health care law negatively, and fewer voters than ever expect it to lower health care costs.

Voters Still Value Cost Reduction Over Universal Health Care Coverage

House Republicans last week unveiled a long awaited proposal for an alternative health care law to replace Obamacare that would, among other things, eliminate the health insurance requirement and aim to reduce health care costs. Most voters still say lowering costs is more important than universal coverage.

One-in-Four Say They’ve Been Helped by Obamacare

A major national insurer’s announcement that it is cutting back its involvement due to big financial losses is the latest problem besetting Obamacare. Few voters want to leave the health care law as is, even though more than ever say they have benefited from it.

Voters Are Still Down On Obamacare

Six years after its passage by Congress, President Obama's national health care law remains unpopular with a majority of voters who still believe it will lead to higher costs and lower the quality of care.

Voters Still Want Feds Out of Health Care

Reducing costs remains voters' top health care priority, and they continue to believe that keeping government out of the health care market is the best way to achieve that goal.

Voters Still Want Changes in Obamacare

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is set to vote this week on whether to repeal the national health care law, but voters tend to think a piecemeal approach to fixing Obamacare is a better route than scrapping it altogether.

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on November 29, 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Support for Obamacare’s Insurance Mandate Continues to Fall

One of the central tenets of the new national health care law is that every American must have health insurance, but support for that requirement has fallen to its lowest level in Rasmussen Reports’ polling to date.

Voters Remain Critical of Obamacare’s Lack of Choices

Obamacare still hasn’t won over most voters who continue to say the health care law doesn’t offer them enough choices when it comes to health insurance.