KFF releases survey on attitudes towards health plans
January 31, 2016
The Kaiser Family Foundation published a survey with interesting results. Apparently, people's views of the Affordable Care Act haven't changed that much since 2010 (slightly more negative). Surprisingly, despite all the complaints about the cost of health care, 61% of non-elderly insured Americans think that their health insurance is a good value or an excellent value. Also somewhat surprising (in light of news about narrow networks) is that 84% of non-elderly insured Americans are somewhat satisfied or very satisfied with their selection of doctors. Overall, the price of various aspects of health care seem to be important to be people, but not an overriding concern.
The poll only sampled 1,204, so it's unclear to me how representative the findings are.