Post by Logan on Apr 9, 2016 2:29:46 GMT -6
More than three-quarters of the state supports Insure Tennessee, Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to use federal Medicaid funding to expand insurance coverage, according to a poll from a local civic tech startup.
Support for the program cuts across political party lines, with 78 percent of those questioned favoring the plan, according to icitizen. Ninety-six percent of Democrats, 76 percent of independents and 68 percent of Republicans support Insure Tennessee.
Icitizen offers a civic engagement app that lets people around the country follow and weigh in on local, state, national and international issues they care about. The idea behind icitizen is to give "people who care about what's going on in their communities ... a real-time connection to politicians," said Mark Keida, director of research and polling.
While app users can use polls, icitizen went off-platform to do the Insure Tennessee poll. It reached 513 people across the state who self-reported as registered voters and fit the state's age, gender and regional profile with party affiliation, education and race factored in.
Read more: www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2016/04/08/icitizen-poll-most-tennesseans-back-insure-tennessee/82759102/
Support for the program cuts across political party lines, with 78 percent of those questioned favoring the plan, according to icitizen. Ninety-six percent of Democrats, 76 percent of independents and 68 percent of Republicans support Insure Tennessee.
Icitizen offers a civic engagement app that lets people around the country follow and weigh in on local, state, national and international issues they care about. The idea behind icitizen is to give "people who care about what's going on in their communities ... a real-time connection to politicians," said Mark Keida, director of research and polling.
While app users can use polls, icitizen went off-platform to do the Insure Tennessee poll. It reached 513 people across the state who self-reported as registered voters and fit the state's age, gender and regional profile with party affiliation, education and race factored in.
Read more: www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2016/04/08/icitizen-poll-most-tennesseans-back-insure-tennessee/82759102/