Should govt help pay for medical care?

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Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 311. Look at card BE. In general, some people think that it is the responsibility of the government in Washington to see to it that people have help in paying for doctors and hospital bills; they are at point 1. Others think that these matters are not the responsibility of the federal government and that people should take care of these things themselves; they are at point 5. a. Where would you place yourself on this scale, or haven't you made up your mind on this?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	2	4	agree with both	don't know	government should help	no answer	people should care for themselves	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	-	188	115	423	31	532	6	195	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	-	300	162	504	53	413	6	161	-	1599
1984	-	269	176	506	40	347	24	111	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	292	164	462	36	416	7	93	-	1470
1987	-	353	141	610	39	549	6	121	-	1819
1988	484	214	85	345	21	264	4	64	-	1481
1989	502	231	78	310	21	314	4	77	-	1537
1990	473	229	67	270	26	266	2	39	-	1372
1991	500	250	93	271	20	321	4	58	-	1517
1993	549	234	98	332	23	297	8	65	-	1606
1994	981	420	217	620	53	503	13	185	-	2992
1996	979	403	198	622	51	518	7	126	-	2904
1998	921	423	185	610	56	473	6	158	-	2832
2000	921	402	194	586	57	539	9	109	-	2817
2002	1853	175	65	308	13	287	1	63	-	2765
2004	1936	175	66	274	11	280	1	69	-	2812
2006	2521	367	166	634	25	665	-	132	-	4510
2008	658	252	125	384	32	471	2	99	-	2023
2010	667	224	142	422	45	402	6	136	-	2044
2012	636	228	153	410	39	384	2	122	-	1974
2014	851	311	175	533	46	412	1	209	-	2538
2016	913	364	190	599	55	587	3	156	-	2867
2018	785	306	129	448	33	528	2	117	-	2348
2021	1377	471	227	793	4	917	1	219	23	4032
2022	1174	381	140	687	33	949	4	166	10	3544
2024	1116	347	144	686	31	820	3	141	21	3309
Total	34821	7809	3695	12649	894	12454	132	3191	54	75699

Values

• 1 government should help

• 3 agree with both

• 5 people should care for themselves

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook