Most Americans say government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage
Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.
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Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.
Overall, 46% of Americans say the statement “public health officials were unprepared for the outbreak” describes their views extremely or very well, including similar shares of Republicans and Democrats.
We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.
Only about 6.9% of the total U.S. population buys health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
Below are the instructions given to researchers who coded the responses to the open-ended question. Keywords listed with each code represent examples indicating how a unit of information could be coded and are not a complete list of all concepts per code. We asked respondents in 24 countries what they think would help improve the […]
Two-thirds of U.S. adults favor laws and policies that require trans athletes to compete on teams that match their sex assigned at birth.
The joint federal-state health insurance program covered 71.4 million Americans as of January 2025.
About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) favor stricter gun laws. Another 26% say that U.S. gun laws are about right, while 15% favor less strict gun laws.
About half (53%) of Americans say they hear or read about Ozempic, Wegovy and similar drugs extremely or very often.
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