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The Consumer Health Action Network
Consumer Survey on Universal Healthcare - Survey Responses
Connecticut policymakers are considering many options to expand
coverage to our state’s uninsured. To help them road-test the options
with the real experts – consumers – we surveyed the members of our
Consumer Health Action Network for feedback. The majority of Network
members are either uninsured or on state programs. We sent surveys to
each, in English or Spanish, with postage-paid return envelopes. The
survey question is copied below. We have scanned their answers exactly
as they wrote them, with no editing. To read the responses, click on the
thumbnails below.
The question:
You may have heard about other states passing plans for universal
health care. Many Connecticut policymakers and candidates have also
offered plans to expand health coverage to every state resident. Lots of
options have been proposed, including
- Making insurance cheaper so more people can afford it
- Requiring companies to offer decent, affordable health benefits
to workers
- Tax free accounts for your health spending dollars
- Allowing everyone to buy into the state employee plan
- Requiring everyone to get insurance, subsidizing coverage for
people with low incomes
- Expand public programs like HUSKY to cover more working people
- Build more clinics that provide affordable care
- One single payer plan for everyone, like Canada or Medicare for
all
What do you think of these ideas? Do you have better ideas of your
own? The answers:
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