Do Unions Still Shape the Healthcare Debate?

March 28, 2008

A survey released this week came to the unsurprising conclusion that people are having a hard time paying for healthcare. The totally nonrandom sample of more than 26,000 people who took the online survey skewed heavily toward the insured (77 percent), unionized (57 percent), college educated (80 percent), and white (86 percent). If anybody should be able to afford healthcare, it would be these folks, right? So it was interesting to see that a third of them said they’d skipped getting necessary medical care because it was too expensive, and half of those with health insurance said it doesn’t cover what they need at a price they can afford. (US News)