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QS1. First, can you please tell me if you are currently registered to vote in the district where you live?
QS2. Have you recently moved and have not yet re-registered in your new district?
QA1. Would you like to turn this audio feature on?
QA2. Were you able to hear the audio?
Q1. Overall, would you say your view of the Medicare program is:
Q2. As you may know, the Medicare Trustees project that unless changes are made to Medicare's costs or revenues, eventually Medicare will have to start cutting back the benefits it provides. How much have you heard about this problem?
Q2A. Just based on what you have heard, is this amount:
Q3. Were you aware that people on Medicare pay monthly premiums or had you not heard this?
Q4. Saving Money by Reducing Costs: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q5. Saving Money by Reducing Costs: Argument Against Proposal
Q6. Saving Money by Reducing Costs: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q7. Generic Drug Proposal: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q8. Generic Drug Proposal: Argument Against Proposal
Q9. Generic Drug Proposal: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q10. Increase and consolidate deductible and cap out-of-pocket costs: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q11. Increase and consolidate deductible and cap out-of-pocket costs: Argument Against Proposal
Q12. Increase and consolidate deductible and cap out-of-pocket costs: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q13. Saving Money by Reducing Payments to Providers: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q14. Saving Money by Reducing Payments to Providers: Argument Against Proposal
Q15A. Saving Money by Reducing Payments to Providers: This would cover 3% of the shortfall. Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q15B. Saving Money by Reducing Payments to Providers: This would cover 7% of the shortfall. Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q16. Equalize the amounts Medicare pays for a service, whether in a hospital or a doctor's office: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q17. Equalize the amounts Medicare pays for a service, whether in a hospital or a doctor's office: Argument Against Proposal
Q18. Equalize the amounts Medicare pays for a service, whether in a hospital or a doctor's office: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q19. Lower the subsidy that goes to teaching hospitals: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q20. Lower the subsidy that goes to teaching hospitals: Argument Against Proposal
Q21. Lower the subsidy that goes to teaching hospitals: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q22. Limits on Medical Malpractice Suits: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q23. Limits on Medical Malpractice Suits: Argument Against Proposal
Q24. Limits on Medical Malpractice Suits: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q25. Limit Medigap: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q26. Limit Medigap: Argument Against Proposal
Q27. Limit Medigap: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q28. Increasing Premiums: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q29. Increasing Premiums: Argument Against Proposal
Q30A. Increasing Premiums: The first version: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q30B. Increasing Premiums: The second version: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q31. Increasing Standard Premiums: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q32. Increasing Standard Premiums: Argument Against Proposal
Q33A. Increasing Standard Premiums: The first version of the proposal: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q33B. Increasing Standard Premiums: The second version of the proposal: This proposal would cover 32% of the shortfall ($72 billion annually). Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q34. Increasing the Medicare Payroll Tax: Argument in Favor of Proposal
Q35. Increasing the Medicare Payroll Tax: Argument Against Proposal
Q36A. Increasing the Medicare Payroll Tax: The first version: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q36B. Increasing the Medicare Payroll Tax: The second version: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q36C. Increasing the Medicare Payroll Tax: The third version: Please select how acceptable or unacceptable this proposal is to you on the scale below.
Q37. Gradually raise the age of eligibility from 65 to 67
Q38. Encourage Medicare recipients to use generic drugs
Q39. Modify deductibles and hospital costs paid by recipients
Q40. Require drug companies to accept less money
Q41. Reduce amounts Medicare pays for some services in hospitals
Q42. Lower the subsidy Medicare provides to teaching hospitals
Q43. Put limits on medical malpractice suits (tort reform)
Q44. Restrict private insurance policies that supplement insurance (“Medigap”)
Q45. Increase premiums for higher-income seniors
Q46. Increase standard Medicare premiums (curently covers 25%)
Q47. Increase the Medicare payroll tax
D1. Generally speaking, do you think of yourself as a:
D1a. Do you think of yourself as closer to the:
D2a. How often would you say you vote in the general election-that is, the election for President every four years, or in off-years for just members of Congress?
d2b. How often would you say you vote in the primary elections-that is, the elections in which a party selects their nominee to run in a general election?
D3. If the Presidential election were held today, with the Republican candidate Donald Trump and the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, which one would you likely vote for?
D5. What is your religion?
D6a. Would you describe yourself as a born-again Christian?
D6b. Would you describe yourself as an Evangelical Christian?
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