Public Opinion on Health Reform

By: Heather Pitre, WHF Health Reform Project Coordinator

  Health reform continues to make the news, and it’s really embedded in my brain now.  I had a dream about it last night:  that there were anti-reform commercials playing on TV.  Hopefully this is not a premonition of the future.  But it could be.

According to numerous national polls, most of us can now agree that reform is necessary.  But how will it work?  What will the details look like?  And what will the price tag be?

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a new report on the public’s opinions on health care delivery system reform. 

“According to a new report by Jill Bernstein, Ph.D., better understanding of the public’s preferences could help policy-makers design, describe and market reform proposals. History shows that when the public does not understand specific proposals—or lawmakers do not fully understand public reactions to these ideas—interest groups are able to leverage public opinion to derail reform.”  Read the full report here: 

Comments

[Vera Wilkinson]

I hope the congressional leaders will pay attention to what the public wants when it comes to health reform. After all, we're all in this together.