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Kaiser Poll Finds Seniors Now Split on Medicare Drug
Benefit
Aug. 25, 2005 – The Kaiser Health Poll has released
the latest survey on attitudes about the new Medicare drug benefit and
for the first time the tracking poll shows senior citizens are as likely
to say that they have a favorable impression of the drug benefit as an
unfavorable one.
The survey measures attitudes about the plan that
begins in January and the knowledge senior citizens have about the plan.
The results of the August poll can probably not be considered good but
all the trend lines are moving in the right direction. Seniors are
becoming a little more familiar with the program and feeling better
about it.
There is, however, still a minority of Medicare
beneficiaries saying they plan to sign up for the Medicare Part D, when
enrollment begins in September.
This August tracking survey shows modest progress
in seniors' knowledge about the Medicare drug benefit. Also, for the
first time, the tracking poll shows seniors are as likely to say that
they have a favorable impression of the drug benefit as an unfavorable
one.
The Kaiser Health Poll Report Survey was conducted
and analyzed by researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is a
major source of information about Medicare.
A nationally representative sample of 1,205 adults
ages 18 and older, including 300 respondents 65 years of age and older,
was interviewed by telephone by Princeton Survey Research Associates
between August 4-8, 2005. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus
three percentage points for the full sample and plus or minus six
percentage points among seniors.
Below are some of the highlight charts from the
report.
The full pdf version of the report is available
here
http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7377.pdf
For Medicare information at the Kaiser Family
Foundation –
http://www.kff.org/medicare/index.cfm
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