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Health care or health scare?
Eric Anderson, Principal and CEOLaura Giocomo, Associate
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What does the public know about reform?
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Where is the public learning about health care reform?
Source: http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8127-F.pdf
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Fact vs. Myth
Source: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/8148.pdf
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• Eric Patashnik, University of Virginia professor, breaks down the two greatest myths:
1. That America currently has a private health care system2. That Americans “overwhelmingly despise the current
health care system.”
More myths
Source: www.virginia.edu.uvatoday
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• However, they still have major concerns about how universal coverage could affect them
• Higher taxes?
• Increased health care costs?
• Lower quality?
• Longer wait time for treatment?
The “what’s in it for me?” mentality
80 percent of Americans support universal health care coverage
Source: www.virginia.edu.uvatoday
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• 55 percent of Americans disapprove of the plan to cut off funding to the new health care reforms
• Yet 51 percent of Americans still disapprove of the original legislation
• 21 percent think the new law will make the health care system better, while 23 percent think it will make the health care system worse
A majority of the public disapproves of the Republican idea to cut off funding for health care reform
Source: CBS News Poll, Feb, 2011
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Divided public opinion on health care reform
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, Dec. 2010
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Shifting opinions among seniors
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, Dec. 2010
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•35 percent say Congress should change the law so it does more
•33 percent say that Congress should repeal it completely
Dislike law – but like components
What should Congress do with the 2010 health care law?
Source: McClatchy-Marist Poll, Nov. 2010
Do you think that Congress should repeal the portion that stops insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions?
•59 percent believe that this portion should remain in law
•36 percent believe that this portion should be repealed
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•68 percent believe that this portion should remain in law
•29 percent believe this portion should be repealed
Dislike law – but like components
Do you think that Congress should repeal the portion that allows children up to age 26 to stay on their parents’ insurance
Source: McClatchy-Marist Poll, Nov. 2010
Do you think that Congress should repeal the portion that closes the so-called donut hole in Medicare prescription drug coverage?
•57 percent believe that this portion should remain in law
•32 percent believe that this portion should be repealed
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• "Of all the factors that contributed to Republican gains in the congressional elections, the President's healthcare reform does not appear to have been the significant drag on Democratic candidates.”
- Brad Woodhouse, Democratic National Committee communications director
• "This election was a clear signal that voters do not want President Obama's health care plan.”
- Bill McInturff, Republican pollster
What effect did health care have on 2010 election?
Source: Washington Post, Nov. 7, 2010
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House efforts to defund federal health care law
Source: Washington Post, Feb. 18, 2011
• The GOP wants to repeal health care reform
• Obstacles to repealing federal health care reform:1. Democrats control the Senate and the White House2. Implementation funds were appropriated in the law itself
• Possible repeal strategies:1. Enact legislation rescinding implementation funds2. Attach language to all budget bills that restricts funding to
carry out health care reform
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• Colorado’s congressional delegation split cleanly along party
lines on H.R. 2 to repeal federal reform.
The Colorado Politics of Health Care Reform
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• Colorado voters rejected a measure to block federal health care reform (Amendment 63)
• Voters approved health care freedom acts in three states:• Missouri• Arizona• Oklahoma
“Health care freedom acts” have mixed reviews
Source: American Medical News, Nov. 2010
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•65 percent of voters believe that it is unconstitutional to require Americans to buy health insurance
•Virginia and Florida federal judges say that the health care reform act is not constitutional
• Colorado Attorney General John Suthers joined a number of attorneys general in challenging the constitutionality of the individual insurance mandate
Constitutional?
Source: American Medical News, Nov. 2010, McClatchy-Marist Poll, Nov. 2010
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How do we move forward?
Source: Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, Dec. 2010