Gallup January 27, 2023
Do U.S. healthcare conditions warrant a major new governmental effort to reform the system? Recent Gallup research measuring Americans’ views of healthcare shows what I consider a complex picture, but there is enough evidence of perceived problems to suggest that continuing efforts to improve healthcare cost, coverage, access and quality are warranted. The challenge is how to go about it.
Trends in Americans’ Perceptions of Their Healthcare Are Mixed
As my colleague Lydia Saad recently noted, for the first time in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans rate the quality of healthcare in this country as excellent or good. Americans’ ratings of the quality of healthcare coverage they personally receive are also at a new low. And a...