With a second round of open enrollment set to begin Saturday, a new poll shows that more than seven in 10 Americans who bought new health insurance policies through government exchanges earlier in the year rate the quality of their health care and coverage as “excellent” or “good.”
Thirty-two percent of the newly insured rate their quality of health care “excellent,” and 42 percent say it’s “good.” Twenty-five percent say their coverage is excellent, and 46 percent say it’s good.
Gallup noted that the numbers are in line with the marks all Americans give their insurance.
But three-quarters of the newly insured are satisfied with the cost of health care, compared to 61 percent of all with health insurance — a difference that could reflect the fact that many people who get their insurance through exchanges get subsidies from the government, wrote Gallup’s Frank Newport.
Among those who bought a new policy through a government exchange, 68 percent plan to renew it, 7 percent say they will get a different policy from a state or federal exchange, 15 percent say they will get another policy elsewhere, and 2 percent say they will drop their insurance.
The survey of 404 adults was based on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey from Oct. 22-Nov. 12 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percentage points.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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