Findings from the 2002 Health Confidence Survey : Five Years of Hcs Data Show Little Change in Confidence or Satisfaction

The 2002 Health Confidence Survey finds that Americans' confidence in and satisfaction with the health care system in the United States remain remarkably stable. Almost half of survey respondents continue to be extremely or very satisfied with the health care they are receiving in general, and more than half continue to be extremely or very satisfied with the quality of the medical care they receive and are confident that they are able to get needed treatments today. However, confidence wanes, as in past years, as they look toward their ability to get needed treatments in the future. Moreover, Americans are more likely than in 1998 to identify health care as a critical issue for the nation. And more are dissatisfied now than in 1998 with both the cost of their health insurance and the costs of health care not covered by their insurance. The PDF for the above title, published in the October 2002 issue of EBRI Notes, also contains the fulltext of another October 2002 EBRI Notes article abstracted on SSRN: "Benefit Cost Comparisons Between State and Local Governments and Private-Sector Employers."