So I was looking back at my previous blogs and realized that I have showed what percent of the public thinks healthcare is the governments responsibility and what percent of the public is for or against Obama'a healthcare plan, but I realized I should also show the public's opinion on the actual healthcare system the U.S. has today. It would make sense that we would first have to see if the American public actually thinks the system is in trouble.
According to Gallup this is the results when asked: Which of these statements do you think best describes the U.S. healthcare system today -- [ROTATED: it is in a state of crisis, it has major problems, it has minor problems, (or) it does not have any problems]?
As you can see from this poll the majority of people believe that the U.S. healthcare system has major problems at 50%. Not only do the majority of people think that the system is seriously flawed but only 2% believe that the system does not have any problems. Which goes to show that even if people are against Obama's healthcare plan, they do believe that something needs to be done to fix our healthcare system. Let me know what your opinions are on the topic. Do you agree that our healthcare system is in a state of crisis? If so what do you propose be done to correct it.
State of crisis | Major problems | Minor problems | Does not have any problems | No opinion | |
% | % | % | % | % | |
2009 Nov 5-8 | 21 | 50 | 25 | 2 | 1 |
2009 Sep 11-13 | 17 | 56 | 25 | 2 | * |
2008 Nov 13-16 | 14 | 59 | 26 | 1 | 1 |
2007 Nov 11-14 | 17 | 56 | 24 | 2 | 1 |
2006 Nov 9-12 | 16 | 55 | 25 | 3 | 1 |
2005 Nov 7-10 | 18 | 52 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
2004 Nov 7-10 | 14 | 53 | 31 | 2 | * |
2003 Nov 3-5 | 14 | 54 | 30 | 1 | 1 |
2002 Nov 11-14 | 11 | 54 | 32 | 2 | 1 |
2001 Nov 8-11 | 5 | 44 | 47 | 2 | 2 |
2000 Sep 11-13 | 12 | 58 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
1994 Sep 6-7 ^ | 17 | 52 | 29 | 1 | 1 |
* Less than 0.5% | |||||
^ WORDING: Which of these statements do you think best describes the U.S. healthcare system today -- the healthcare system is in a state of crisis, it has major problems, it has minor problems, or it does not have any problems? Hope this blog opened some eyes to the fact that Americans almost all agree that the system is flawed.....the debate comes in on the way to go about fixing it. | |||||
First Id like to comment on your blog page itself. I really like it. It fits your personality very well. ha. Now for the shop talk. Its amazing to me how many people think that the health care system is in a state of crisis and that it has maor problems, and yet so many people are opposed to the restructuring of the health care system. So many people are quick to say that something is wrong but fail to come up with any suggestions to fix the problem at hand. And once someone comes along with an idea of change they are so quick to shut the idea down. Some people may deem the phrase "if it isn't broke then dont fix it" appropriate in this situation. I on the other hadn think that something does need to be done. Not every single person in the country is going to agree with it. But at least someone is trying their idea and not just griping about how crappy the system is and still not doing anything about it.
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