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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (66642)	6/11/2009 10:02:58 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

Show me these polls. Link or Lie? Americans trust Medicare much more than private insurers. Every poll shows that. Although more than half of medicare recipients haven't a clue if they are getting good care or even know if they got care.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (66642)	6/11/2009 10:33:54 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224748

Poll Finds That Public Will Trust An Independent Review Panel More Than The Government To Make Decisions On Medical Insurance Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Public Health Article Date: 28 Apr 2009 - 5:00 PDT Find other articles on: "poll trust medicare" More than half of U.S. residents polled said they would trust an independent scientific panel to decide which medical treatments insurers should cover, compared with 42% who said they would trust a government health agency to make that decision, according to a recent poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, NPR.org reports (Silberner, NPR.org, 4/26). The telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,238 adults was conducted between March 12 and March 22 ("The Public and the Health Care Delivery System," NPR/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, April 2009). Currently, there is no national standard for what health insurance plans are required to cover. Under the Obama administration's stimulus package, $1 billion is included to conduct comparative effectiveness research, which would study the different types of medical treatment to determine what works best. Officials have been soliciting advice from health experts and the public on how it should be conducted, and who should have the final word, NPR.org reports. Uwe Reinhardt, a health economist at Princeton University, said while a government board could handle making such decisions, an independent board might be more acceptable to the public (NPR.org, 4/26). The full results of the poll are available online. NPR's "Weekend Edition" on Sunday reported on the poll. Last week, NPR reported findings from the survey on its programs "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" (Silberner, "Weekend Edition," NPR, 4/27). Reprinted with kind permission from kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at kaisernetwork.org. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.