Understanding How Americans View Health Care Reform

Abstract

Now that Congress has adjourned and most members are back in their own states or districts, they will be listening to what their constituents have to say about the debate over health care reform. We examined the results of 22 recent nationwide public opinion polls (see Recent Opinion Polls on Health Care Reform; polls are cited parenthetically hereafter), working with support from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to find out what our legislators might be hearing.On issues such as health care, we believe that public support for change is shaped by the interaction of . . .