Q. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements about health insurance?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | ||
| The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable | 85% | 7% | 49% | 36% | 5% | 2% | 7% | |
| If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make. | 84% | 8% | 50% | 34% | 6% | 2% | 8% | |
| The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation. | 82% | 7% | 47% | 35% | 5% | 2% | 11% | |
| Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it. | 60% | 27% | 29% | 31% | 20% | 7% | 12% | |
| The private health industry provides value for money | 31% | 59% | 7% | 24% | 31% | 28% | 11% |
| 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 | ||
| The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable | 85% | 7% | 92% | 5% | 77% | 11% | 76% | 12% | |
| If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make. | 84% | 8% | 88% | 7% | 85% | 5% | 76% | 9% | |
| The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation. | 82% | 7% | 87% | 7% | 81% | 7% | 71% | 9% | |
| Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it. | 60% | 27% | 53% | 37% | 82% | 10% | 68% | 12% | |
| The private health industry provides value for money | 31% | 59% | 42% | 50% | 13% | 79% | 14% | 68% |
There was very strong agreement with the statements that “The government should do more to keep private health insurance affordable “ (85%), “If the private health insurance industry wants to increase fees it should have limits to the profits it can make” (84%) and “The government should cap increases in private health insurance premiums at the level of inflation” (82%).
60% agreed that “Health insurance isn’t worth the money you pay for it “ and 59% disagreed that “The private health industry provides value for money”.