Women on Health Care
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Last week, I joined a conference call with the Independent Women’s Forum about a poll that The Polling Company conducted on women’s attitudes and the health care debate. I meant to write about this earlier, but sadly all of my free time was taken up with creating a Meghan McCain Halloween costume. (Yes, it was awesome.)
Carrie Lukas, Vice President for Policy and Economics, started off the call by stating, “we think women are missing important information about the health care system and trade offs that are involved. The press sometimes misses women’s real concerns.”
Since women make the majority of decisions regarding health care for their families, IWF commissioned KellyAnne Conway to survey only women about health care.
This random digit dial surveyed 800 women over seven nights with a proportionally represented sample of female registered voters.
The point I found most interesting was the timing. Congress and the media keep insisting that there’s a crisis! and Americans demand that health care be reformed now!
When asked when Congress and the President should enact healthcare reform,
9% hoped for action in the next few weeks; 20% wanted change by the end of the year; 22%
preferred to see reform in the next one or two years; and 43% of women say that Congress and
the President should enact healthcare reform “only when quality legislation is developed, even
if it means there is no deadline.”

