health/social issue polls

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jan 14 14:53:56 PST 1999


[This got caught by the spam filter, but it could be interesting.]

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:11:11 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Kff hosting account <kff at superfly.onlinemagic.net> (by way of pms <laflame at mindspring.com>) Subject: What's New on the Kaiser Family Foundation Web site Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Dear Interested Party:

Health issues rank high on the voters' list of top priorities for the new Congress, according to a new survey conducted immediately after the election by The Kaiser Family Foundation, www.kff.org, and Harvard School of Public Health.

Of sixteen issues voters were asked about, seven - including three health issues - were identified by at least half of voters as top priorities: keeping Social Security financially sound (80%), keeping Medicare financially sound (73%), helping the uninsured get coverage (61%), passing tougher anti-crime laws (60%), establishing federal education standards for public schools (55%), HMO/managed care reform (54%) and cutting taxes (50%).

The entire survey is available, and can be downloaded from the Foundation's web site, at http://www.kff.org/archive/health_policy/general/voters/voters.html

You can also access other recent surveys -- on topics such as Medicare, Social Security and the influence of values on discourse about social and health policy -- from the Foundation's surveys page, located at www.kff.org/surveys.

We hope you find it of interest.

-- The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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