Outing the Rorschach Inkblots (2)

A few weeks ago I wrote about the controversy surrounding the publication in Wikipedia of the ten Rorschach inkblots accompanied by the most...

Age-Group Comparisons (8/27)

There's been a lot of discussion of how seniors, who already are on Medicare, appear to be the least supportive age group of President O...

Miscellaneous (8/25)

A couple of brief notes today... Nate Silver gives his criteria for how poll questions on a public option should be worded . To see my earl...

More Polling on the Public Option (8/24)

Following up on our previous charting of support for a public option, which almost exclusively covered July polling, we now look at surveys...

American Values and Health Reform (3): Medical Progress

This is the third in a series of posts based on “ Connecting American Values with Health Reform ,” a publication of eleven short essays from...

Weekly Wrap-Up (8/21)

An ABC News/Washington Post poll has been released today , adding to the bunch released yesterday. Nate Silver of "Five Thirty Eight...

Avalanche of New HC Polls (8/20)

Today we've seen the release of several polls, each of which is either devoted to health care or contains substantial coverage in that a...

Misconceptions About Reform Bills (8/19)

A common theme in recent health care polling -- presumably stemming from the heated rhetoric at townhall meetings and elsewhere -- is the de...

Comparing Polls over Time (New NBC Poll; 8/18)

An NBC News poll (in the field August 15-17) has just appeared, focusing on health care issues (findings for select items were released dur...

Overhauling Healthcare Czarina Style

Overhauling Health Care Czarina Style The United States is known for its wastefulness of consumer goods and energy resources but the excess ...

Urgency to Pass a Health Care Reform Bill (8/17)

Given the seeming volatility in what can happen in the health care reform debate -- such as the recent flap over " death panels " ...

American Values and Health Reform (2): Liberty

As I noted in a post last week, The Hastings Center has published eleven short essays as a small booklet – “ Connecting American Values wi...

Weekly Wrap-Up (8/14)

My thanks to all who have visited this blog during its inaugural week! Thus far, I have been summarizing Americans' views on specific i...

Anticipated Effect on Quality of Care (8/13)

How do Americans think health care reform will affect the quality of health care? Pollsters have addressed this question from two frames of...

Taxes to Pay for Expanded Coverage? (8/12)

With President Obama pledging that health care reform must be deficit-neutral , new revenue sources will be necessary so that the extension ...

Mandating Health Benefits in Massachusetts

The Boston Globe recently reported that 70 bills requiring insurers to cover specific health services are pending in the Massachusetts legi...

The "Public Option" (8/11)

Perhaps the most contentious issue among congressional negotiators and interest groups in Washington, DC (and elsewhere) is the so-called p...

Universality, Individual and Employer Mandates (8/10)

Today, we look at three specific issues in the health care debate. The first is universality (i.e., belief that any new policy should wor...

American Values and Health Reform (1): Responsibility

This spring the Hastings Center published eleven short essays as a small booklet – “ Connecting American Values with Health Reform .” The a...

Welcome Statement

If you're following the debate in Washington, DC over health care/insurance reform as closely as I am, you're probably interested in...

Attacking Insurers - Good Politics/Bad Ethics

As you read this post, keep in mind that I direct the ethics program at a nonprofit health insurance company - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ....

Outing the Rorschach Inkblots

There's been a free-for-all at Wikipedia over the publication of Herman Rorschach's famous inkblots. When the article initially rep...

Republicans Propose Tearing Down Medicare

I'm worried about August. Opponents of health care reform are playing public fears very skillfully. The strongest volleys of sound bites...