Health Care Polls: December 2015

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

How Advocates for Young-Adult Health-Insurance Enrollment Use Survey Data and Experiments

Vox.com has an article on how Enroll America, an organization seeking to get people signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, has used survey research and message-wording experiments to connect with young adults, a group traditionally reluctant to purchase insurance (link).

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."