Arizonans say health care costs are bad and getting worse (update 3)
03/25/2008 11:10 AM Becky Pallack
This morning I am reading the Arizona results of a huge nationwide survey conducted by the AFL-CIO. Check out just these first two questions:
1. Which of the following would you say best describes your family’s financial situation?
Getting ahead — 15%
Having just enough to get by — 56%
Falling behind — 29%
2. Do you think the standard of living for the next generation will be better than today, worse than today or about the same?
Better than today — 3%
Worse than today — 87%
Same as today — 10%
This is sounding like a sad story of people living beyond their means. Still, the point of the union’s survey is to point out how the rising cost of health care is hitting people where it hurts.
Tuesday update:
Because the survey was an unscientific online survey, we probably won’t use the results in the paper, but you can find the complete results here
Additionally, most union members will get the change to see a video on health care policy reform at their regular union meeting in April. The Arizona AFL-CIO has hand-outs to go with the video that can help members make decisions about health care policy issues in the upcoming election.
You should really take off your “I hate the Star”-colored glasses, D.
Becky Pallack specifically states they won’t be using the results in the paper and I’ve never seen a major story in the Star based on those little polls they run sometimes.
And when they do mention the results of their online polls, they never try to pass them off as some extensive, scientific survey.
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The Star conducts unscientific online surveys and bases major stories on them.
— D 03/25/2008 09:19 PM #
You should really take off your “I hate the Star”-colored glasses, D.
Becky Pallack specifically states they won’t be using the results in the paper and I’ve never seen a major story in the Star based on those little polls they run sometimes.
And when they do mention the results of their online polls, they never try to pass them off as some extensive, scientific survey.
— Mary 03/25/2008 11:04 PM #