Gallup Finds Most Americans Satisfied With Their Current Health Insurance Plan

Gallup Finds Most Americans Satisfied With Their Current Health Insurance Plan in Individual Health Insurance

Yesterday, Gallup rehashed some poll data from 2006 to 2008 about Americans’ perceptions of their health insurance coverage.

Not too surprisingly, the data showed most people are happy with their current health plan.

Seventy-five percent of Americans with a private health insurance plan rated their coverage as excellent or good, reported the Gaggle blog at Newsweek. Those on government-run plans such as Medicare were also satisfied with their insurance — 74 percent rated their government plans as excellent or good.

When it comes to the quality of health care, satisfaction actually goes up. A whopping 87 percent of those polled who have private health insurance said the quality of their health care is excellent or good. Those with Medicare or Medicaid had similar satisfaction levels of their health care quality — 82 percent said quality was excellent or good.

Because of these high satisfaction numbers, it’s easy to see why public support for health reform is waning big time. Most people are simply happy with what they have and fear what reform might bring.

Still, health reform and public health plan proponents might argue a vast majority of people who are already on government-run health plans are satisfied with both their insurance coverage and the quality of their care.

On the other hand, critics of reform will say any major changes to the system will inherently disrupt something people are clearly satisfied with.

So no new revelations, but interesting data nonetheless.

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