By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new poll conducted by the Independent Women’s Forum found that nearly two-thirds of America women would rather have private health-care insurance than a government-run plan and believe Congress should not rush to pass a health-care bill at this time.
According to a report by CNSNews.com, a random telephone survey of 800 women, conducted by pollster Kellyanne Conway, found that women prefer private healthcare plans by a margin of 64 to 27 percent.
“In this poll we treat women like grownups,” said Ms. Conway, president of the polling company. “We don’t ask them just about babies and families, although we cover those issues. We ask them about real world economics, real tradeoffs and the real costs associated with our health-care system.”
The poll found that at least two-thirds of women are happy with their own health insurance with 66 percent describing their present insurance as “excellent” or “good.”
Seventy-five percent don’t want changes made to their own health care plan and 59 percent don’t want drastic changes to american health care in general.
“Less than 10 percent of women think that they are getting ‘the short end of the stick’ in terms of health-care,” Independent Women’s Forum Senior Policy Analyst Nicole Kurowzawa told CNSNews.com.
An overwhelming majority don’t want their current plan switched to a government-run plan, Ms. Kurozawa said.
“When women say they want expanded federal health-care, they mean that they want it to exclude themselves,” Ms. Kurowkawa. “They want it to reach out to the poor, to reach out to the elderly.”
The survey also found that 71 percent of women business-owners (and 67 percent of women overall) said they would be “less likely” to vote for a candidate for Congress “knowing he or she favored moving people from their private healthcare plans to government-run health-care plans.”
Sixty-seven percent of the women surveyed did not want to see a health care plan rushed through Congress and agreed with the statement: “I would prefer that United States Senators and Members of Congress not support poorly-crafted or rushed healthcare legislation. It is more important to get it done right than to get it done fast.”
“Less than 30 percent of the women surveyed said that ‘something is better than nothing,’” Ms. Kurowzawa said, adding that the finding doesn’t come as a surprise.
“The idea that we should slow down and read the bills makes total sense, but it’s good to see that most women across the country also think it makes good sense, as well,” she said.
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