Health Care Polls: October 2015

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Awareness of ACA Assistance Availability in California

Charles Gaba reviews a report from Covered California, the Golden State's health care exchange, on awareness among the uninsured of assistance options. Covered California is also using the survey results to develop outreach strategies to help the uninsured sign up.

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."