The latest Field Poll, paid for by the California Wellness Foundation, shows that 81 percent of California voters think government should be responsible for assuring all Californians get access to affordable health coverage.  The issue of health insurance coverage is receiving more coverage in the papers these days since the governor announced that he will propose some major plan to deal with the state’s uninsured population.

Did the Field Poll or the California Wellness Foundation bother to ask the voters if they wanted to pay higher taxes in order to have government solve the affordable health care problem?  Of course not!  Schwarzenegger has been clear that he recognizes that Californians don’t want to pay higher taxes.  Asking the voters if they wanted to pay higher taxes would have reduced the number of people who then wanted government to solve the problem, which, no doubt, the folks at the Wellness Foundation know. 

So once again, the Field organization has put out a useless poll that doesn’t really reflect the voters’ attitude towards the range of issues around increasing access to affordable health insurance.  If the people in Sacramento who are going to be hammering out the supposed "solution" to this problem want a real look at the voters’ attitude, they need to commission a poll that asks about the problem–affordable health insurance–and possible solutions, including higher taxes. 

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.