Thursday, May 12, 2005

Poll Shows Strong Support For Reform

A new poll commissioned by the Campaign and conducted by respected pollster Gerry Chervinsky of KRC Communications Research for The State House News Service shows an overwhelming mandate for major health care reform and strong support for the Health Care Amendment. By a 4-1 margin, voters favor the Amendment (75.5%-20.7%). An incredible 82.6% believed that all residents of Massachusetts should be able to get high quality care, regardless of their ability to pay. The poll surveyed 400 voters from May 4-6, 2005 and had a margin of +/- 4.8%.
There is majority support for the Amendment in every group polled. Women favor the idea more strongly than men; younger respondents favor the Amendment more strongly than do older respondents; and Democrats and Independents favor the Amendment more strongly than do Republicans.

4 Comments:

DrSkeptic said...

Not to in any way to diminish anyone’s enthusiasm for this goal, however ....

This gets paid for how? I haven't yet explored all of this site, so I guess I should voice a concern rather than complain about a conceptual failing yet. Nonetheless, the sections I've found so far addressing costs and financing are a bit superficial and light on detail. Preventive care, mental health services, hospitals, surgery, medications and devices is, ahem, a hefty expense as well as a goal.

Or is the strategy to make the legislature set a goal and then figure it our for themselves? I assume it would work better than the Big Dig (an awesome goal with some sloppy execution). The devil is, as they say, in the details. Here it's in the implementation: how does a concept like “health care for all” actually get implemented. In real life. With real money.

Best Wishes.

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