Well thats certainly one way of looking at it, but if that were the case I would have hoped the pollsters would have rephrased the question to include two above average and two below average.
Here is the entire question and answer list, with percentages:
Quote:
1* How do you rate the healthcare you receive….excellent, good, fair or poor?
35% Excellent
39% Good
17% Fair
7% Poor
1% Not sure
2* How do you rate the U.S. health care system? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?
17% Excellent
31% Good
30% Fair
19% Poor
4% Not sure
3* Do you have health insurance?
85% Yes
14% No
2% Not sure
4* (answered only by those who have health insurance) How do you rate your own health insurance coverage?
35% Excellent
45% Good
15% Fair
4% Poor
0% Not sure
5* Are you willing to pay higher taxes so all Americans can be provided with health insurance?
28% Yes
60% No
12% Not sure
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...ugust_1_2_2009
I highlighted what I thought wre two telling areas. One of the biggest things that pops out at me is that while 19% of the respondents believe the quality of US healthcare is poor, only 7% think their level orcare is poor, and only 4% of the insured rate their healthcare as poor (keep in mind the poll itself has a +/- 3% margin for error).
Even more telling, 74% of the respondents rated their own care as good to excellent, and 91% rated their own care as fair to excellent. Meanwhile, the same respondents rated US healthcare overall as only 48% good to excellent and 78% fair to excellent.
It seems this issue may be as much a product of perception as it is reality.
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