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Blue Collar Health Care 26 YEARS?

25%
Working-class whites in the South do not have health insurance.

Do you think whatever

replaces the Affordable Care Act should
allow young people to
stay on their parents
plan until age 26?

10% Working-class whites in the Midwest do not have health insurance.

6% Working-class whites in the West do not have health insurance.
SOURCE: Kaiser Family Foundation http://kaiserf.am/2fVVQp7

PRE-EXISTING

CONDITIONS
ASKED OF 581 REGISTERED MINNESOTA VOTERS

Regarding the Affordable Care Act health

insurance law, do you think whatever replaces
it should cover pre-existing conditions?

YES
NOT
SURE

NO

85%
10%
4%

65%

YES

20%

NO

14%

NOT SURE

SOURCE: KSTP/SurveyUSA

SOURCE: KSTP/SurveyUSA http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=2e389a0e-3cd0-4299-95c7-55ed644bd132

WHATS MOST IMPORTANT

TO YOU...

ASKED OF 581 REGISTERED MINNESOTA VOTERS

Of the major campaign promises Donald Trump

24% All Of These

17% Repeal & Replace Affordable Care Act

13% Cut Taxes
13% Infrastructure Program
11% Deport Illegal Immigrants
11% None Of These

made, which of these, if any, do you think is the

7% Appoint Conservative Justice

single most important promise that he keep?

3% Not Sure

SOURCE: KSTP/SurveyUSA http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=2e389a0e-3cd0-4299-95c7-55ed644bd132

1% Build Wall

NATIONAL
OUTLOOK
GALLUP: Although
Americans don't see
healthcare as a crisis at
this point and don't name
it as the most important
problem facing the
country, it is still seen as
important based on
other measures:

16%

of Americans said November 2015 that the healthcare system is in a

state of crisis, and (56%) say that it has major problems.

54% of Americans have a very or somewhat negative view of the

health care industry. This represents a nine-point jump from 2015 and is the
most negative reading since 2011.

When Americans were asked to name the most important priority for the next
president to address, Healthcare (including healthcare cost and reform) was the
third-most-frequently mentioned issue, behind only the economy and immigration.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/2geKYXJ

PRIORITIES
KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION:
Making sure that high-cost
drugs for chronic conditions are
affordable to those who need
them is viewed as a top
priority by three quarters
(74%) of the public, including
large majorities of Democrats,
Republicans and independents.

SOURCE: http://kaiserf.am/2eQM2Oi

100 DAYS
21% want Trump to focus
on healthcare when he enters
the White House Jan 20th.

64% say at least some of the news coverage

theyve seen about the health care law has been
about politics and controversies.
63% say government action to lower

16% want jobs to be

prescription drug prices is a top priority.

Trump's first agenda item.

57% say making sure health plans have sufficient

14% want immigration as

doctor and hospital networks and protecting people

from high charges when they visit an in-network
hospital but are seen by an out-of-network doctor.

the Presidents top priority.

SOURCE: Reuters/Ipsos, Nov. 9-14 poll

OPINIONS ON PHARMA
9 OUT OF 10 adults blame pharmaceutical companies either some or a lot for the

high cost of health care, and two-thirds blame them a lot.

90% agree that raising the prices of life-saving medications is taking advantage of consumers.
90% agree that pharmaceutical companies make too much money off of life-saving medications.
88% agree that pharmaceutical industries have too much freedom to set prices for life-saving medications.
81% of Americans now support price controls or caps on drugs and medical devices.

SOURCE: The Harris Poll http://bit.ly/2gf96tf

Millennials on Health Care and Reality

20% of U.S. Millennials are obese, compared with 32.5% of non-Millennial adults, and

only millennials have seen their obesity rate go down since 2008. Millennials have also
bucked the trend in the rise of diabetes nationally, with a 0.5-percentage-point reduction
in diabetes compared with 19- to 35-year-olds in 2008.

66% say any premium at or above $200/month is unaffordable, for the past 3 years.
55% of uninsured Millennials say they are not at all or not very informed about the

health insurance options available to them.

16%

SOURCE: Gallup http://bit.ly/2f4lMBj and

Transamerica Center for Health Studies http://bit.ly/2feBqaY

47%

of Millennials overall and

of uninsured Millennials do not plan on having
insurance in 2017. The most common reason Millennials are not planning on purchasing
insurance is due to affordability (47%).

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DECEMBER 2016