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Q17-HC1: How closely have you been following debate about health care reform?
Q18-HC2: When you think about issues of health care, how worried does it make you feel?
Q19-HC3: As partisan debate over health care has grown more intense has this led you to feel:
Q20-SER1b. Should US government be responsible for ensuring that its citizens can meet their basic need for health care?
Q21-SER2a. Given limits of US resources, how well govt is ensuring people that people can meet the basic need for healthcare?
Q22-HC4: Do you mostly think of health care as a right or as a privilege?
Q23-HC5: If NO major health care legislation is enacted, do you think the health care system in this country will
Q24-HC6: Which position is closer to yours:
Q25-HC7: How concerned are you that at some point you and your family will not be able to get health insurance at a price you can afford?
Q26-HC8: How concerned are you about whether Americans in general can get health insurance at a price they can afford?
Q27-HC9: Would you say that US health care system:
Q28-HC10: Which position is closer to yours:
Q29a-HC11a: Is each of the following US govt-run program or not? [Medicare]
Q29b-HC11b. . . . Veterans Health Administration
Q29c-HC11c. . . . Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Q29d-HC11d. . . . Kaiser Permanente
Q30a-HC12a: What percentage of money spent of [Medicare] is lost to waste, fraud and abuse
Q30b-HC12b: What Percentage is waste fraud and abuse in [Private insurance]
Q31-HC13: In regard to waste, fraud, and abuse in the health care system, do you think:
Q32a-HC14a: As compared to Canada, Germany and France, how does US compare on: [Research on diseases and treatments]
Q32b-HC14b: . . . Medical technology in hospitals and clinics
Q32c-HC14c. . . . Infant mortality rates
Q32d-HC14d. . . . Affordability of health insurance
Q32e-HC14e. Percent of citizens w/health insurance coverage
Q33-HC15: Statement on Govt Healthcare. Would you favor having govt provide health care services directly to all Americans who want it?
Q34-HC16: Public Option Pro Arg: if people cannot find affordable coverage govt needs to provide them w/an option - competition by public option would force private insurers to lower overhead costs, making insurance cheaper for everyone.
Q35-HC17: Public Option Con Arg: w/o need to make profits, govt-run health insurance program would unfairly undercut private insurance, leading to govt takeover of health care - puts govt between you and your doctor.
Q36-HC18: Do you favor govt-administered health insurance option that anyone can purchase to compete w/private insurance plans?
Q36a-HC18a. What if govt-administered health insurance plan were offered as an option only to people who cannot get insurance through employers?
Q37-HC19: Employer Mandate Pro Arg: Employers have moral resp to provide insurance to employees - Unfair that companies that dont provide insurance have an econ advantage over those who do
Q38-HC20: Employer Mandate Con Arg: Requiring employers to offer health insurance will force them to pay lower wages, lay off workers, or will drive small companies out of business.
Q39-HC21: Do you favor requiring all but smallest businesses to provide health insurance for their workers, or contribute to public fund to cover uninsured?
Q40-HC22: Individual Mandate Pro Arg: If people not required to have health insurance, they still go to ER when they get sick. Hospitals then pass costs to rest of us by raising fees, or govt has to cover cost w/taxpayers’ money. Not fair.
Q41-HC23: Individual Mandate Con Arg: People should have right to decide whether or not they want to spend their money on health insurance. Forcing people to buy insurance is an unjustified govt intrusion into people’s lives.
Q42-HC24: Do you favor requiring all people to have health insurance for themselves and their children?
Q43-HC25: Tort Reform Pro Arg: Will save money b/c doctors will focus on patients needs, instead of ordering expensive tests to protect themselves from lawsuits - will lower cost of malpractice insurance, leading to increased fees
Q44-HC26: Tort Reform Con Arg: Bad idea that will happen at patients’ expense. If jury awards are limited, incompetent doctors will be less careful - patients permanently harmed by their mistakes may not receive adequate compensation
Q45-HC27: Do you favor or oppose tort reform?
Q46-HC28: HC Exchanges Pro Arg: Govt should allow people to shop anywhere in country for health insurance - increased competition will make basic policies more affordable for low-income indiv, and benefit middle-class fams w/expensive plans
Q47-HC29: HC Exchanges Con Arg: Selling health ins. across state lines would hurt their efforts to regulate insr cmpns - will benefit young and healthy at expense of old and sick by undermining states efforts to guarantee insr. cmpns provide certain level
Q48-HC30: So now, do you think rules against purchasing insurance across states lines should be
Q49a-HC31a. Insurance companies would be required to accept every applicant for coverage, including people w/pre-existing medical conditions.
Q49b-HC31b. Insurance companies would NOT be permitted to drop a sick insured person because they can identify a minor mistake in their original application form.
Q50-HC32: If health care reform is enacted will you pay higher taxes?
Q50a-HC32a: Do you think your taxes will be:
Q51-HC33: Do you think that if health care reform is enacted:
Q51a-HC32a: Do you think the deficit will increase:
Q52-HC34: Now that you’ve spent some time considering issues of HC reform, how worried does thinking about this problem make you feel?
Generally speaking, do you think of yourself as a:
Do you think of yourself as closer to the:
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