538's polling column about the state of health care, voters' trust in the 2024 election results and President Joe Biden's approval rating.

Summary

Polls show a majority blame insurance and pharmaceutical companies for high costs, denied claims, and access issues.

Only 44% rate U.S. health care quality as “good” or “excellent,” a 20-year low.

Support for government intervention is rising, with 62% favoring federal responsibility for universal health care.

Meanwhile, satisfaction with the Affordable Care Act has grown, with 54% approving.

Trump’s unclear health care overhaul plans are entering a polarized environment where Americans remain split on private versus government-run systems.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    5·
    9 hours ago

    this is with them hamstringing the aca during the last trump administration and with the mistake of allowing one company to own multiple sectors of the industry (hostpitals and insurance and pharmacy and manufacture and provider)

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    17 hours ago

    We want universal healhcare. Those who “suffer” due to lack of income (due to the insurance industry collapse) after it rolls out can talk to a therapist for low to no cost.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
      528·
      17 hours ago

      Some of you want that. Some of us do not want that.

      I want to eliminate company provided healthcare. There may be better programs for me, but if I try to look elsewhere I discover that my company pays more than $1000/month for my insurance and if I go elsewhere I lose that all. As such no other plans can compete with what I get. In turn that means my insurance reports to and cares about my company and not what I think.

      • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        So what would happen if you stopped working at this place for whatever reason, or the company itself ceased to exist? Just wondering how that situation would affect things.

        • bluGill@fedia.io
          11·
          6 hours ago

          A big mess. I generally can pay full price to keep the current insurance but now I need to come up with that $1000 per month while I don’t have a job.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        211·
        17 hours ago

        You don’t want universal healthcare but you agree that tying health insurance to a private company is awful.

        So what’s your hangup? You don’t want your taxes to go up? If so, I can assure you it won’t be $12000/year.

        • bluGill@fedia.io
          110·
          12 hours ago

          I want health insurance from a private company of MY choice. I don’t want to choose my job based on what health insurance they provide. Right now nobody reports to me - there is no incentive anywhere for me.

          • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            12 hours ago

            So that still doesn’t tell me why you don’t want universal healthcare…

            • bluGill@fedia.io
              16·
              10 hours ago

              Because I believe in the free market. But what we means I’m not actually in the market and so the free market isn’t serving me.

                • bluGill@fedia.io
                  12·
                  6 hours ago

                  Maybe, but generally universal has subsidies and so private cannot compete. Or universal has limits on coverage thus making poor who really need help unable to get good care

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    17 hours ago

    But… but the main health insurance industry association, AHIP, says that 75% of Americans like their employer provided health insurance! Surely they can’t be wrong!

    /s

    • vonbaronhansEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I mean, I generally do like my employer health insurance, but it’s also genuinely a really good plan that I’ve largely had zero issues or outright denials. (I do sometimes have to get my doctor’s office and insurance to talk to one another appropriately, but that’s just as much on the doctor).

      But I would gladly give up my health insurance for a nationalized healthcare system. Not even a question.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    15 hours ago

    Damn, ABC News, look at you out here dropping such a huge scoop on everybody. You’re a credit to modern journalism ABC News and totally not a bought-and-paid-for corportate psyops firm run by republiQans for shackling the poors.

  • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    17 hours ago

    How could this be?!

    You mean even after Congress slapped a [$35] band-aid on the problem…checks notes…16 years ago, and have only picked away at it since then, they still want more?