Health Care Polls: February 2020

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

ACA at Its All-Time Highest Popularity Per Kaiser Family Foundation Poll

This month's (February 2020) Kaiser Family Foundation monthly tracking poll shows support for the Affordable Care Act to be at the highest level ever recorded by this poll, 55%. Opposition is much lower, at 37%.

R2K Polling Controversy

On June 29, 2010, the website Daily Kos announced that polls it had commissioned from the firm Research 2000 were "likely bunk." Kos has asked readers to disregard all R2K polls done for his site. Any Kos/R2K polls cited here on the Health Care Polls blog over the past several months should accordingly be disregarded, as well. I am leaving them up, however, as part of the historical record. Often, my analyses of polling trends that included R2K surveys also included polls from other firms, too. I hope the pending lawsuits between Kos and R2K will reveal whether the latter's polls are completely valid, completely made-up, or perhaps, as Nate Silver suggested, the product of data being merely "mangled."