Health Care Polls: February 2018

Monday, February 5, 2018

Contradictory Polls on Medicaid Work Requirements

Vox reviews two recent polls that produced seemingly contradictory results on whether the majority of Americans support work requirements for people to obtain Medicaid. One poll shows robust support for work requirements, the other not so much.

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."