Follow Up on Insured Vs. Healthcare Rights Poll

Thursday June 25, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, I asked you to help me prove an assumption (yes, I know what they say!) that our opinions about whether healthcare should be a right might be colored by whether or not we have good healthcare coverage.

You can see the poll results here.

Turns out -- I was wrong! Well, at least I was partially wrong. And seriously -- that's a big relief.

My assumption was that the people who have good healthcare coverage would believe that we should have to earn the right to good coverage; that it should not be a given right that we should have healthcare access whether or not we have the means to purchase it.

However -- as you can see by the poll results -- that's not exactly how you, as a voting body of readers, feel.

69% of you feel as if healthcare should be a right (of which 7% are not residents of the US)
27% of you feel as if healthcare should not be a right
Of those of you with good healthcare coverage, only 42% felt as if healthcare should be a right... so... my assumption was partially true.

There was nothing scientific about this. But it definitely shows we have opinions on the subject. As healthcare reform continues to be a large topic of debate, I expect you'll think back to this poll on occasion. It will be interesting to see if your congressional representatives feel the same way you do.

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