Q. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements about health insurance?
| Total agree | Total dis-gree | Strongly agree | Agree | Dis-agree | Strongly dis-agree | Don’t know | Sep 2017 agree | Sep 2017 dis-agree | |||
| If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make. | 83% | 8% | 44% | 39% | 6% | 2% | 10% | 84% | 8% | ||
| The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable | 83% | 11% | 46% | 37% | 6% | 2% | 9% | 85% | 7% | ||
| The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation. | 79% | 9% | 43% | 36% | 7% | 2% | 13% | 82% | 7% | ||
| Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it. | 60% | 27% | 29% | 31% | 21% | 6% | 13% | 60% | 27% | ||
| The private health industry provides value for money | 27% | 62% | 5% | 22% | 34% | 28% | 12% | 31% | 59% |
| Total agree | Total disagree | Have health insurance agree | Have health insurance disagree | Had health insurance agree | Had health insurance disagree | Never had health insurance agree | Never had health insurance disagree | ||
| If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make. | 83% | 8% | 89% | 5% | 83% | 11% | 74% | 8% | |
| The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable | 83% | 11% | 92% | 4% | 84% | 10% | 71% | 13% | |
| The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation. | 79% | 9% | 86% | 8% | 79% | 10% | 70% | 8% | |
| Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it. | 60% | 27% | 52% | 38% | 83% | 12% | 67% | 13% | |
| The private health industry provides value for money | 27% | 62% | 36% | 58% | 21% | 73% | 12% | 65% |
There was very strong agreement with the statements that “The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable “ (83%), “If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make” (83%) and “The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation” (79%).
60% agreed that “Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it “ and 62% disagreed that “The private health industry provides value for money”.
There has been little change in these results since the question was asked in September.