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These health polls are powered by the IBM Watson Health PULSE® Healthcare Survey. Fielded since 1988, it is one of the largest and longest-running consumer health surveys in the United States.

June 2020: COVID-19

We asked U.S. healthcare consumers about COVID-19. 25% said they are very comfortable returning to their workplace, and 8% said they are not at all comfortable.

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Apr 2020:

COVID-19

We asked U.S. healthcare consumers about COVID-19. 48% of respondents said they have delayed routine healthcare appointments. (PDF, 1.4 MB)

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Mar 2020:

Medication Compliance

We asked healthcare consumers about medication compliance. In the last 90 days, 55% of all respondents said they had received a prescription.
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Feb 2020:

Data privacy

Eleven percent of respondents said they had been notified by a healthcare provider that their information had been compromised, which is the same rate as reported in 2017 (11%) and is higher than 2014 (5%).
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Jan 2020:

Price sensitivity

About 2 out of 3 respondents say they would switch healthcare providers if offered a cost savings. Read more about how factors, such as age and income level, affect responses.

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Feb 2019:

Anger

This health poll asked respondents about their anger. Overall, 84% of respondents said they felt Americans are angrier than they were a generation ago.

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Apr 2019:

Price Transparency

This health poll asked respondents about healthcare costs and the accessibility of price information. One in three looked for healthcare prices in the past month, and 72% found them.

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May 2019:

Pain

This Health Poll asked respondents about pain. Overall, 18% of respondents said that pain has often interfered with their work, school or daily activities.

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