{"id":1793,"date":"2016-01-28T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T13:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2016-01-28T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T13:46:23","slug":"despite-kvetching-most-consumers-satisfied-with-health-plans-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Despite Kvetching, Most Consumers Satisfied With Health Plans: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Bashing insurance companies may be a popular pastime, but a poll released Thursday found most people were satisfied with their choices of doctors and even thought the cost of their health coverage was reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/health-reform\/poll-finding\/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-january-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Family Foundation poll<\/a> revealed that 71 percent of insured adults younger than 65 considered the health care services they receive to be either \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cgood\u201d values. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.) A majority \u2014 61 percent \u2014 said their insurance plan was either excellent or good, given its cost. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/despite-kvetching-most-consumers-satisfied-with-health-plans-poll\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=25688803&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-84pshkAecOvwoHUIvZsOIrEzyFtHZUyplN4vF1fU-MJdqkrM2Cu0h78ZNy152LHlwJqscSaTG9MTJqDvrXXxgiJryENA&amp;_hsmi=25688803\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News) Bashing insurance companies may be a popular pastime, but a poll released Thursday found most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}