National Healthcare and Government Regulation Poll
Recent national polling reveals strong bipartisan support for healthcare transparency and workforce reforms
Most voters believe healthcare prices should be transparent, requiring medical providers to disclose the true cost of simple procedures before patients agree to treatment (82% overall). A majority (54%) also believe qualified doctors practicing medicine in another country should not be required to repeat their residency training when they come to the United States.
Voters want more Americans to have access to opportunity. 72% of voters support allowing state governments to accept work experience as a substitute for college degrees for many open jobs with the knowledge it could help government agencies run more efficiently and could support military veterans (81%).
When it comes to regulations, a majority (60%) of voters understand that regulations hurt small businesses more than large corporations, and 75% support requiring states to periodically review regulations and determine whether they should be eliminated.
Should healthcare providers be required to disclose the true cost of simple procedures before patients agree to treatment?
Should qualified doctors practicing medicine in another country be required to repeat their residency training when they come to the United States?
For many jobs, the federal government accepts work experience in place of a college degree. Would you support or oppose allowing state government to also accept work experience as a substitute for college degrees for their open jobs?
Would you be more likely to support work experience as a substitute for a college degree if you knew that only about 35 percent of Americans have a college degree?
Would you be more likely to support work experience as a substitute for a college degree if you knew that it could help government agencies run more efficiently?
Would you be more likely to support work experience as a substitute for a college degree if you knew that it could help military veterans land a job?
Would you support or oppose requiring state government job applicants to demonstrate basic reading comprehension?
Would you support or oppose requiring state government job applicants to demonstrate basic logical reasoning and problem-solving skills?
Do you think government regulations hurt small businesses or big corporations more?
Would you support or oppose requiring state agencies to catalog all of their regulations on a publicly available, easy-to-access website?
Would you support or oppose requiring states to periodically review regulations to determine whether they should be eliminated?
Should elected representatives or unelected heads of government agencies ultimately decide whether a regulation is necessary?
Should a small business owner have to travel to a state capital courtroom to challenge a regulation, or should they be allowed to challenge regulations in their local court system?
Results for this poll were collected using a sampling frame that gathered responses from 1,159 likely national voters during live calls, online panels, and automated telephone interviews conducted by Cor Strategies, Inc.
The survey was conducted October 7–11, 2024. The margin of sampling error is ±2.94 percentage points. The margin of sampling error may be higher or lower for subgroups. Results presented may not always appear to total 100 percent due to rounding.
Data were post-stratified using weighted demographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement and the state election authorities.
Demographic information for actual voters in past elections was used to construct sample target weights.
Cicero Institute paid for all costs associated with this survey.