Kaiser releases new online tool that compares opinion polls on health care issues

The Kaiser Family Foundation released a new online resource that allows comparison among different public opinion polls on health care issues across time.  This new resource, Kaiser Public Opinion Spotlight, "provides in-depth analysis of public opinion on a variety of health care and health policy topics. Each Spotlight uses public opinion data from Kaiser surveys and other sources to examine current views and trends."

The April Spotlight includes a comparison between 1990 and 2008 on the percent of Americans naming  health care as one of the two most important issues for government to address.  The current 22 percent response rate is the highest rate since 1995. 

This Spotlight also includes the following comparisons:

The Public’s Assessment of the State of the U.S. Health Care System
Party Trust in Dealing with Health Care
Issues Are Only One Part of What Determines Votes
Health Care as an Election Issue in Exit Polls 1992-2006
Health Care in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries
Where Is Health Care Likely to Rank in the 2008 General Election?
Issues Voters Want to Hear About in the 2008 Campaign
What Role Does Health Care Play in Voters’ Concerns About the Economy?
Health Care Costs and People’s Personal Economic Situations
Views on the Potential Impact of Changes in Health Care Costs and Coverage on
the Economy Overall
Differences in Health Care as a Voting Issue by Political Party
Differences in Health Care as a Voting Issue by Age
Specific Health Care Issues in the 2008 Campaign
Groups to Watch in the 2008 Presidential Election: Political Independents
Political Independents: Variation in Opinion
Groups to Watch in the 2008 Presidential Election: Health-Focused Voters
Health-Focused Voters: Health Care Issue Preferences
Groups to Watch in the 2008 Presidential Election: The Uninsured
The Uninsured and Voting
Historical Perspective: Specific Health Care Issues in the 2006 Presidential
Election
Historical Perspective: Specific Health Care Issues in the 2004 Presidential
Election
Historical Perspective: Specific Health Care Issues in the 2002 Congressional
Election
Historical Perspective: Specific Health Care Issues in the 2000 Presidential
Election
Historical Perspective: Health Care in the 1998 Congressional Election
Historical Perspective: Health Care Reform and the 1992 Presidential Election