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HEALTH CARE 2020 POST-FORUM QUESTIONNAIRE

How Can We Bring Costs Down While Getting the Care We Need?

NOW THAT YOU’VE HAD a chance to participate in a forum on this issue, we’d like to know what you’re thinking. Anonymous responses will be included in summary reports on the forums and in research to help us better understand how people are thinking about current issues.
1.Here are some priorities for improving the US health-care system. Thinking about yourself and your community, which of these items do you see as one of the top two or three priorities for improving the system, which do you see as helpful but not a top priority, which is not a priority at all, and which do you oppose? Keep in mind that making major changes in the US health-care system will be difficult, and we’ll have to make some choices about what to work on first.
One of my top three priorities
Helpful but not a top priority
Not a priority at all
I oppose this
I am unsure about this
Reducing what federal, state, and local governments spend on health care to control taxes and our growing debt
Making health-care costs much more transparent so patients know what things cost
Reforming the health-care system gradually to avoid jolts to the system and unintended consequences
Keeping private insurance available so people have choices and there’s some competition in the system
Making sure all government and private insurance covers dental and eye care
Putting much more emphasis on preventive care and healthy lifestyles
Making sure every person is insured through a single national government program
Cutting people’s out-of-pocket costs by reducing insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays
Giving people a chance to buy into a government-run, Medicare-like plan if they want
2.Which is more important to you? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
3.Which is more important to you? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
4.Which is more important to you? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
5.Which statement comes closer to your view? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
6.Which statement comes closer to your view? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
7.How much disagreement was there about this issue in your forum?
8.Did you talk about aspects of the issue you hadn’t considered before?
9.Were there ideas or proposals that you tended to favor coming into the forum that you now have second thoughts about?
10.What could citizens, working together, do in their own communities to address this problem?
11.Not including this forum, how many National Issues Forums have you attended?
12.Gender:
13.How old are you?
14.Are you:
15.In what type of community do you live?
16.What is your zip code?
17.What state do you live in?
18.Did you attend this forum in person or online?
19.What issue would you like to see covered in a future forum?