Hospice News November 28, 2022
About 72% of respondents to a National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) survey said they do not believe that the U.S. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population.
NPHI conducted the survey in September in collaboration with Emergence Creative and the consulting firm SIR. The research follows up on a 2017 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist to gauge whether perceptions of health care had changed in the intervening years, particularly in light of the pandemic.
Among the 2,009 survey participants, 82% indicated that they believed that the system prioritizes profits over patients. Though 74% expressed a positive view of hospice care, only 31% said they trusted the health...