{"id":595,"date":"2008-03-27T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/27\/and-the-survey-says\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T20:00:24","slug":"and-the-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/27\/and-the-survey-says\/","title":{"rendered":"And the survey says&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The\u00a02008 Health Care\u00a0for America Survey results are in, and the\u00a0findings expose a health care system that costs too much, covers too little, leaves too many behind and is getting worse. The results deliver a mandate for health care reform to everyone who wants the support of working families in this year&#8217;s elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* One-third of respondents to the online survey, sponsored by the AFL-CIO and Working America, report skipping medical care because of cost, and a quarter had serious problems paying for the care they needed.<\/p>\n<p>* 95 percent say they are somewhat or very concerned about being able to afford health insurance in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>* Almost half overall (48 percent) and 60 percent of Latinos say they or a family member has stayed in a job to keep health care benefits when they would have preferred changing jobs.<\/p>\n<p>* 95 percent of respondents say America\u2019s health care system needs fundamental change or to be completely rebuilt.<\/p>\n<p>* 79 percent say health care is a very important voting issue, and 97 percent say they plan to vote in the November elections.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvoice.org\/ct\/hpaic_n1NqpA\/\">full survey results<\/a> and health care stories. Learn how working families can win secure, high-quality health care for all in 2009 if we make the 2008 elections a mandate for health care reform.<\/p>\n<p>Over a period of\u00a0seven weeks, more than 26,000 people took the online 2008 Health Care for America Survey sponsored by the AFL-CIO and Working America. Most are insured and employed. Most are college graduates. More than half are union members.<\/p>\n<p>These are the people, it would seem, most likely to have positive experiences with America&#8217;s health care system. Instead, their responses tell a sobering story about the breadth of the problems with health care in America. They say our system has fundamental problems that must be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re ready to vote about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a02008 Health Care\u00a0for America Survey results are in, and the\u00a0findings expose a health care system that costs too much, covers too little, leaves too many behind and is getting worse. The results deliver a mandate for health care reform to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/27\/and-the-survey-says\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}