Health Care Polls: July 2015

Friday, July 31, 2015

Californians' Sunny Attitude Toward Obamacare

Wonkwire reviews a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll in California, which shows newly insured respondents satisfied with their coverage and able to access care.

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Nugget from Latest Kaiser Family Foundation Poll

Charles Gaba highlights what he considers a "buried lede" in the latest Kaiser Family Foundation survey of attitudes toward the ACA: 47% of Americans want to "expand what the law does" or keep it as is, whereas only 39% want it to be scaled back or repealed entirely.

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."