Health Populi June 9, 2020
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

The coronavirus pandemic has further opened the kimono of the U.S. healthcare system to Americans: four months into the COVID-19 outbreak, most consumers (62%) of people in the U.S. are more concerned about other people not having access to high quality health care versus themselves.

This is a 16 point increase in concern in May 2020 compared with the response to the same question asked in February in a poll conducted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research (the AP-NORC Center).

The AP-NORC Poll found more of this “my brother’s keeper” health care ethos, shown in the first chart: 87% of Americans said they were concerned about...

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