A new poll from Politico and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that Americans are focused less on health care costs and the idea that overuse is driving up health care spending and more on the services for which they are being charged.
Robert Blendon, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who led the poll, said in an April 3, 2019 Politico article that the findings indicate that voters may be upset with politicians who have focused their cost-cutting strategies on patients overusing certain health care services.
The poll, which was conducted with 1,003 adults, also found that Americans want lawmakers to directly address prices that drug companies, providers, and insurers charge instead of focusing on patient behavior.
Read the Politico article: Poll: Americans blame pharma, insurers and providers for high health costs