Kaiser conducted their poll between April 8 and April 14, collecting responses from more than 1,500 American adults. According to them, the top 10 priorities of the president and Congress should be:
- Ensuring the affordability of high-cost drugs for chronic conditions — including HIV, hepatitis, mental illness and cancer — for those who need them (76 percent)
- Lowering prescription drug prices using government action (60 percent)
- Protecting individuals from being charged high prices when they visit hospitals covered by their health plan but are seen by a physician not covered by their plan (56 percent)
- Making sure health plans have sufficient provider networks (55 percent)
- Making information about the price of physician visits, procedures and tests more available to patients (55 percent)
- Making information about what physicians and hospitals are covered under different health insurance plans more available (54 percent)
- Making information comparing the quality of healthcare provided by physicians and health insurance plans more available (54 percent)
- Changing current eligibility rules so that financial help under the healthcare law to purchase health insurance is available to more people (50 percent)
- Requiring all states to expand their Medicaid program to cover more low-income, uninsured adults (50 percent)
- Making the notes physicians take about patients routinely available to patients (45 percent)
To read the full list of priorities, click here.
