Questions - Health Insurance - August 2-3, 2011
91% Think Emergency Rooms Should Treat Those Without Health Insurance
39% Say Health Insurance Companies Should Be Required to Cover Contraceptives
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National Survey of
1,000 Adults
Conducted August 2-3, 2011
By Rasmussen Reports
1* Should health insurance companies be required by law to
cover all government-approved contraceptives for women, without co-payments or
other charges to the patient?
2* If health insurance companies are required to cover all
government-approved contraceptives for women, without any charges to the
patient, will that increase the cost of health insurance, decrease the cost of
health insurance, or have no impact on the cost of health insurance?
3* Should individuals have the right to choose between
different types of health insurance plans, including some with higher
deductibles and lower premiums and others with lower deductibles and higher
premiums?
4* Should individuals have the right to choose between
different types of health insurance plans, including some that cost more and
cover just about all medical procedures and some that cost less while covering
only major medical procedures?
5* Should the government require every health insurance
company and health insurance plan to cover the exact same set of medical
procedures?
6* Have you personally ever been taken to the emergency
room for a medical procedure of any kind?
7* Suppose someone without
insurance is in a serious accident and they are brought to the emergency room
in critical condition. Even if they don’t have insurance, should victims of
serious accidents be treated in the emergency room?
8* How many emergency room patients receive treatment but
don’t have insurance? Only a few, about one-in-ten,
one-in-four, half, or more than half?
9* Suppose an illegal immigrant is
in a serious accident and they are brought to the emergency room in critical
condition. Even if they are in the country illegally, should victims of serious
accidents be treated in the emergency room?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence