Fact Based List:

Consumer Ranking of Health Reform Elements

  1. Making sure affordable health insurance plans are available: 79%
  2. Requiring insurers to cover those with pre-existing conditions: 71%
  3. Not adding to the country's budget deficit: 69%
  4. Filling the Medicare donut hole: 68%
  5. Providing enough government financial help so as many uninsured people as possible can get health insurance: 65%
  6. Requiring that every American have health insurance: 56%
  7. Limiting awards in medical malpractice lawsuits: 48%
  8. Creating a government-administered public health insurance option to compete with private plans: 47%

Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll (conducted November 5-12, 2009).
Source URL: http://www.kff.org
Notes: Percent who say it is EXTREMELY or VERY important to them personally that each of the following be a feature of any final reform plan: