Dive Brief:
- A new Gallup poll concludes that two-thirds of Americans are satisfied with the US health care system today.
- However, only 33% of those who don't have health insurance said they were satisfied with our health care system. Meanwhile 72% of those with insurance were satisfied.
- Medicare-eligible Americans older than 65 had the highest satisfaction rate at 80%. Those between the ages of 18 and 29 were second in line, with 73% reporting satisfaction with their health care.
Dive Insight:
According to Becker's Hospital Review, Americans' satisfaction with how the health care system works today stands in the way of broad acceptance of the ACA. After all, Becker's notes, only about one in five Americans perceive the health care system as being in a state of crisis. Still, even if the ACA manages to insure as many people as the Obama administration hopes for, there will still be millions uninsured, particularly in the middle class, who largely aren't eligible for the subsidies making ACA coverage possible. Those uninsureds aren't going to go away quietly.