Washington Post Revisits Its Own Data (9/30)

In the aftermath of yesterday's two main votes in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee against including various types of public option in ...

Rebellion Against the Individual Insurance Mandate

This morning's New York Times reports that legislators in a dozen states are launching a rebellion against the possibility of a mandate...

Kaiser Foundation's September Poll (9/29)

The Kaiser Family Foundation is out with its September poll , which I think is interesting to look at for a few reasons. First, Kaiser has ...

Should Therapists Snoop in Their Patient's Facebook Site?

A colleague recently asked me this question: What do you think about therapists going to a patient's Facebook site if that site is open ...

The Politico takes a look at difficulties (real or apparent) in interpreting public opinion polls on health care reform.

Health Care Organizational Ethics Blog Cited

Medicine 3.0 recently cited this blog as one of the top 50 health policy blogs. I appreciated the honor, and also appreciated learning about...

Poll of (D-Leaning) Swing Districts (9/25)

A new survey of 1,200 respondents total "in ninety-one swing [congressional] districts (Blue Dog, Frontline, and Rural Caucus House di...

The Art of Dying

In the July/August issue of the Hastings Center Report , John Hardwig, professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, offers guidan...

U.S. Regional Differences in Health Care Reform Attitudes (9/23)

The political fortunes of the Republican party have been heading south in recent years, both literally and figuratively. A Daily Kos/Resear...

Jay Cost at Real Clear Politics analyzes how public opinion on health care reform might translate into U.S. House and Senate members' v...

Shamans, Placebos and Multicultural Ethics

Over coffee I read in this morning's New York Times about how Mercy Medical Center , an acute care hospital in Merced, California, allo...

How Much is Life Worth? - An Oncologist's Call to Arms.

Between 1997 and 2004, Medicare spending on cancer drugs rose by 267% compared to an overall rise in Medicare spending of 47%. With an aging...

Pay or Play or Pay and Pay; Obama versus Baucus Health Plans

Baucus Health Plan Senator Baucus of Montana broke away from his committee to present his approach to a United States health care overhaul. ...

One Week Post Obama Speech (9/18)

Observers of political survey research are no doubt familiar with the concept of a "bounce," the lift in polling numbers a preside...

Massacusetts Insurance Costs and Federal Health Reform

Our national approach to health reform is likely to draw on the reform process Massachusetts launched in 2006. By the measuring rod of cover...

Pollster.com's Mark Blumenthal weighs in on what the post-speech polls are telling us about whether -- and to what degree -- there'...

Nate Silver at Five-Thirty-Eight has two new postings on recent health care surveys. One examines trendlines in support for President Obam...

CBS News Poll (9/11)

CBS News released a poll this morning, which seeks to gauge the effects of President Obama's Wednesday night speech on health care refo...

Post-Speech Tidbits (9/10)

Daily Kos contributor DemFromCT provides an overview of initial polling after President Obama's health care speech last night (note tha...

Obama's Speech - Good Ethics and Good Politics

President Obama hit a home run last night. His speech brought together the three roles we need our president to take in the health reform pr...

Another Skeptical Audience for Obama Tonight: Men (9/9)

Many political analysts have been framing tonight's health care reform speech by President Obama in terms of his need to appeal to diffe...

Wendell Potter on For-Profit Health Insurance

Wendell Potter, who retired last April from his job as head of communications for the CIGNA health insurance company, has been in the news s...

Robert Blendon and John Benson of the Harvard School of Public Health have attempted to summarize 22 recent polls on health care reform wit...

Greg Dworkin (who posts as DemFromCT at Daily Kos) was kind enough to send me an e-mail, notifying me that he mentioned the Health Care Pol...

Support for Public Option in the States

NOTE: This page is being continually updated beyond its original posting on 9/4, whenever I become aware of new state-specific polls. Wher...

Insurance is Not Health Care

To listen to the vitriol regarding health care reforms for Americans, you would think we were in the civil war again. I have noticed a numbe...

Satisfaction with Publicly Provided Health Care (9/3)

I recently saw two articles pop up, independently of each other, that address the question of consumers' satisfaction with health care p...

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

In the course of trying to understand the eruption of rage against the non-existent "death panels" in the emerging health reform b...

August's "Raucus Caucuses" Seem to Have Had Little Effect on Public Opinion (9/2)

Two newly released polls suggest that the vigorous (some would say "over the top") protests at congressional lawmakers' August...

Miscellaneous (9/1)

CBS News has released a new health care poll (in the field August 27-31), focusing on respondents' self-perceived understanding of the ...

Immigrant Health and Heart Transplants

I'm still jet lagged from 2 1/2 weeks in Europe, so when I woke up in the dark this morning I sought out the online New York Times for s...