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> Instead, every survey of Americans shows around 80% are satisfied with their health coverage. Weird how heath coverage is the only thing in America 80% of th

> Instead, every survey of Americans shows around 80% are satisfied with their health coverage. Weird how heath coverage is the only thing in America 80% of the people are satisfied with. It's such a nice round number, too. I'm assuming it's men only, or were women polled before Roe v. Wade was dumped?

loeg 2y ago
GP is rounding. It's an approximate centroid of a variety of numbers over time, but pretty consistently in the 70s or 80s.
- gopher_space 2y ago
  1) What else in America enjoys an 80% satisfaction rate, broadly speaking? 2) Why didn't this number change after women's healthcare took a massive hit? I'm assuming this is like calculating unemployment rates, where you need to play around with your definitions. Like, services no longer being available can't factor into "satisfaction" in any way. More concretely, if you have two pharmacies in town and one of them closes, will polling accurately reflect the 0% satisfaction rate engendered? Or is this where we start splitting hairs.
  - loeg 2y ago
    > What else in America enjoys an 80% satisfaction rate, broadly speaking? https://thehill.com/changing-america/3870943-americans-largely-satisfied-with-personal-lives-survey/ https://thehill.com/changing-america/3870943-americans-large... > Although personal life satisfaction varies based on income, age, marital status and education level, between 81 percent and 90 percent of Americans are satisfied with their own family life, current housing situation, job, education, community and personal health. > Slightly lower levels — between 71 percent and 77 percent — said the same about the amount of leisure time they have, their household income and standard of living. So, ya know, lots of things that aren't super politicized. > Why didn't this number change after women's healthcare took a massive hit? (1) This question is asking about the quality of healthcare you received, not your perception of healthcare for others. A minority of women are directly impacted through the healthcare system by Dobbs (2022) (as opposed to indirect or non-healthcare effects). (2) Some of the novel abortion restrictions post-Dobbs happened later? The most recent point on this graph is 2022. So it may just not show up yet until 2023/2024 numbers. (3) The 2022 satisfaction number is slightly lower than the 2021 number (72% vs 76%). You could plausibly attribute some of that to Dobbs.
    - gopher_space 2y ago
      > This question is asking about the quality of healthcare you received Ahh ok, there’s the hair we’re splitting. Can’t be unsatisfied with a service that doesn’t exist I guess.

loeg 2y ago

GP is rounding. It's an approximate centroid of a variety of numbers over time, but pretty consistently in the 70s or 80s.

gopher_space 2y ago
1) What else in America enjoys an 80% satisfaction rate, broadly speaking? 2) Why didn't this number change after women's healthcare took a massive hit? I'm assuming this is like calculating unemployment rates, where you need to play around with your definitions. Like, services no longer being available can't factor into "satisfaction" in any way. More concretely, if you have two pharmacies in town and one of them closes, will polling accurately reflect the 0% satisfaction rate engendered? Or is this where we start splitting hairs.
- loeg 2y ago
  > What else in America enjoys an 80% satisfaction rate, broadly speaking? https://thehill.com/changing-america/3870943-americans-largely-satisfied-with-personal-lives-survey/ https://thehill.com/changing-america/3870943-americans-large... > Although personal life satisfaction varies based on income, age, marital status and education level, between 81 percent and 90 percent of Americans are satisfied with their own family life, current housing situation, job, education, community and personal health. > Slightly lower levels — between 71 percent and 77 percent — said the same about the amount of leisure time they have, their household income and standard of living. So, ya know, lots of things that aren't super politicized. > Why didn't this number change after women's healthcare took a massive hit? (1) This question is asking about the quality of healthcare you received, not your perception of healthcare for others. A minority of women are directly impacted through the healthcare system by Dobbs (2022) (as opposed to indirect or non-healthcare effects). (2) Some of the novel abortion restrictions post-Dobbs happened later? The most recent point on this graph is 2022. So it may just not show up yet until 2023/2024 numbers. (3) The 2022 satisfaction number is slightly lower than the 2021 number (72% vs 76%). You could plausibly attribute some of that to Dobbs.
  - gopher_space 2y ago
    > This question is asking about the quality of healthcare you received Ahh ok, there’s the hair we’re splitting. Can’t be unsatisfied with a service that doesn’t exist I guess.