A vast majority of North Carolina voters say Medicaid is important for access to healthcare, according to a new poll.
Nearly 95% of voters vouched for the government health insurance program in a poll commissioned by Healthier United, a nonprofit advocacy group.
It’s a view that Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated voters share. More than 94% of Republicans said Medicaid is important, and more than 95% of Democrats and unaffiliated voters said the same.
“Medicaid is something that is incredibly popular,” Morgan Jackson, a Democratic political consultant, told reporters Friday. “I don’t think you’re going to find agreement on many issues across the two parties at this kind of level.”
About 3.1 million North Carolinians are enrolled in Medicaid.
Jackson and Paul Shumaker, a Republican consultant, were the poll’s project managers.
Paul Shumaker, a Republican consultant, and Morgan Jackson, a Democratic political consultant, were the poll’s project managers.Gov. Josh Stein’s administration and Republicans in the legislature have failed to come to an agreement over additional funding for Medicaid after going back and forth for months. The state Department of Health and Human Services projects Medicaid will run out of money next month. Stein is pressing the legislature to appropriate another $319 million for the program.
A majority of poll respondents, more than 57%, said their own healthcare costs were too high, but they paid anyway.
More than 22% said they were satisfied with what they pay, while 17% said costs were so high that they skipped needed care.
Taken together, 75% of those polled are concerned about costs, Jackson said. Those concerns united people across political parties and demographics.
Vaccine acceptance, RFK Jr. approval
More than 73% of those polled said vaccines are generally safe and effective, though Democrats, at about 88%, were more supportive.
More than 59% of Republicans said vaccines are safe and effective, while about one-third of Republicans disagreed.
Of those who do not like vaccines, 27% said they hurt people or had bad side effects. Another 21% were skeptical.
Views on the nation’s leading vaccine critic, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are sharply divided by party.
North Carolina Republicans like him (72% favorable), and North Carolina Democrats really don’t (11.1% favorable.) Overall, more than 48% of those polled had an unfavorable opinion of Kennedy, more than 37% liked him, and about 13% had no opinion.
The survey of 800 registered voters was conducted March 8 and March 9 using live telephone interviews.
Also last week, the group released survey results covering political views and political debate.
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