(2/9/07) InsiderAdvantage / Majority Opinion surveys conducted within the past ten days for subscribers to our polling service offer a look at how Georgians feel about health care issues pending before the 2007 legislative session. Here is a sample of what we found:
• In a survey of 400 Georgians
conducted last week (margin of error plus or minus 5 percent), 60 percent of
respondents put PeachCare at the top of the list of spending issues they want
to see the Legislature tackle. No other budgetary issue received even a statistically
significant level of support. The huge level of interest in PeachCare is likely
stoked by the attention the issue has received from the press and by Gov. Sonny
Perdue’s appearance before Congress.
• 50 percent of all Georgians said they favored “legislation
which would make it easier for surgeons and other specialists to perform certain
procedures in their office or at a facility outside of a hospital.” Republicans
supported the proposal by 68 percent. Only 30 percent opposed the proposal,
with most of the opposition coming from those who described themselves as Democrats.
The rest were undecided.
• 61 percent of all respondents said they favor legislation
which “would allow doctors of optometry to prescribe certain antibiotics
and other necessary drugs to patients.” Republicans favored the proposed
measure by over 72 percent with Democrats supporting it at 57 percent. Independents
favored it by a margin of 46 percent to 23 percent, with remaining independents
saying they were undecided.
The full InsiderAdvantage Health Care poll has a wealth of additional information
and is available by special subscription. We poll every night during the legislative
session on a wide range of topics. To join the top legislative and business
leaders who already subscribe to this service, contact Jimmy Meehan at jmeehan@insideradvantage.com
or by phone at 404-233-3710.