ladichatterlee: Where do you get your figures from? No one I know is satisfied with their health insurance program.
You might want to pay attention!
Gallup: 80% satisfied with health care, 61% with insuranceposted at 3:35 pm on September 23, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/23/gallup-80-satisfied-with-health-care-61-with-insurance/Read the following from a study done in 2007.
Health Care Reform: What Do Americans Want? (Or Think They Want?)
Maggie Mahar, The Century Foundation
"On the surface, it seems that American voters have made their will clear. Poll after poll shows that they are calling for a major overhaul of our health care system.
But when you look closer, their responses bristle with contradictions and discrepancies that I think the reform-minded presidential candidates will have to consider when deciding how to approach health care reform.
In a poll reported in Health Affairs at the end of last year, sixty-nine percent of respondents rated the US system as “fair” or “poor.” Yet in the same survey, when asked about their own experience with receiving medical services or with their own physician, 80 percent who had received care in the last year ranked their care as “excellent” or ”good.”
Other polls reveal the same pattern.
According to a survey released by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in July, voters express doubts about the quality of the American health care system (with 49 percent dissatisfied), while 74 percent were dissatisfied with the cost. Yet, “at another, more personal level,” the pollsters note, “a slightly different picture emerges. Fully eight in ten (82 percent) describe themselves as satisfied with the quality of the health care they receive personally. This number jumps to 90 percent among seniors (64 percent very satisfied), but includes impressive majorities of nearly all groups…”
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