HealthPocket Survey Says: Over Seventy Percent of Respondents Believe Health Insurance is a Human Right
01 Agosto 2019 - 9:30AM
HealthPocket, a free information source designed to help consumers
find medical coverage, today released results of a pulse survey.
The survey asked general questions to determine consumer sentiment
on their health insurance benefits. Click here to view the
full survey press release with media-ready images, downloadable
resources, and more. Findings of the survey include:
- Over 55% of those surveyed would be somewhat or extremely
unhappy it they could not keep their current health insurance
plan.
- 16.29% of those insured did not think health insurance is a
human right.
- On the question asking if respondents would be willing to pay
for someone else’s insurance if they couldn’t afford it, the
results were almost equally divided 1/3 yes, 1/3 no and 1/3
unsure.
- Putting a dollar amount in response to paying for someone
else’s insurance, 57.8% would spend $50 per month for someone
else’s insurance, less than 2% of respondents would pay $200 per
month and 3.36% would spend $250 per month for someone else’s
insurance.
Jan Dubauskas, Vice President and Senior Counsel of Health
Insurance Innovations Inc., (NASDAQ: HIIQ and parent company to
HealthPocket) stated, “HealthPocket’s survey reflects the dilemma
facing American society with regards to health insurance: more than
70% of respondents see health insurance as a human right, but only
about a third of the respondents say they are willing to pay for
someone else’s health insurance if they could not afford it.
Given this impasse, individual plans and a wider variety of
products are needed to continue to meet the needs of the uninsured
and underinsured.”
Ms. Dubauskas further said, “Health insurance plans, their
costs, their benefits, and their limitations are in the news daily
and health insurance and government options are a major part of the
current political discourse. Health insurance consumers are
seeking flexible products that are tailored to their needs. Our
survey found almost 30% of respondents would be either somewhat or
extremely happy if they could not keep their current plan
indicating their current coverage was not in line with their needs.
What the survey demonstrates is access to better plans for
consumers and their families is an ongoing issue.”
LINK TO SURVEY GRAPHICS
HealthPockets Survey Says: |
|
|
How unhappy would you be if you couldn’t
keep your current plan? |
Extremely
happy |
13.81 |
% |
Somewhat happy |
15.67 |
% |
No preference |
14.43 |
% |
Somewhat unhappy |
20.82 |
% |
Extremely unhappy |
35.26 |
% |
|
|
Do you think that health insurance is a
human right? |
Yes |
70.31 |
% |
No |
16.29 |
% |
Unsure |
13.40 |
% |
|
|
Would you
be willing to pay for someone else's health insurance if they
couldn't afford it? |
Yes |
34.43 |
% |
No |
32.58 |
% |
Unsure |
32.99 |
% |
|
|
With
regard to the previous question, how much would you be willing to
spend monthly to pay for someone else's insurance? |
$ |
0 |
19.27 |
% |
$ |
50 |
57.80 |
% |
$ |
100 |
13.15 |
% |
$ |
150 |
4.59 |
% |
$ |
200 |
1.83 |
% |
$ |
250 |
3.36 |
% |
HealthPocket is a free information source designed to empower
consumers on health insurance. HealthPocket aggregates data from
government, non-profit and private sources to increase transparency
in the healthcare market in order for consumers to make wiser and
more cost-effective healthcare decisions. Through HealthPocket’s
tools, consumers can compare the coverage, benefits, and costs of
health insurance, including Medicare, ACA, and short-term health
plans. HealthPocket, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Health
Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC (NASDAQ: HIIQ).
METHODOLOGY:
The results above were gathered through an online poll of nearly
two thousand people who are the head of a household and between the
ages of 18-64. The poll was conducted on July 24-26 and was
weighted to get representative samples from each state based on
population.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS:
HealthPocket, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based technology company
and wholly owned subsidiary of Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings
LLC, part of the Health Insurance Innovations, Inc. family
companies (NASDAQ: HIIQ). This press release contains
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements are statements other than historical fact, and may
include statements relating to goals, plans and projections
regarding new markets, products, services, growth strategies,
anticipated trends in our business and anticipated changes and
developments in the United States health insurance system and laws.
Forward-looking statements are based on our current assumptions,
expectations and beliefs are generally identifiable by use of words
"may," "might," "will," "should," "expects," "plans,"
"anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential" or
"continue," or similar expressions and involve significant risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results, developments and
business decisions to differ materially from those contemplated by
these statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among
other things, our ability to maintain relationships and develop new
relationships with health insurance carriers and distributors, our
ability to retain our members, the demand for our products, the
amount of commissions paid to us or changes in health insurance
plan pricing practices, our ability to integrate our acquisitions,
competition, changes and developments in the United States health
insurance system and laws, and our ability to adapt to them, the
ability to maintain and enhance our name recognition, difficulties
arising from acquisitions or other strategic transactions, and our
ability to build the necessary infrastructure and processes to
maintain effective controls over financial reporting. These and
other risk factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking
statements are discussed in HIIQ's most recent Annual Report on
Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
as well as other documents that may be filed by HIIQ from time to
time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are
available at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statement made by us
in this press release is based only on information currently
available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made.
You should not rely on any forward-looking statement as
representing our views in the future. We undertake no obligation to
publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or
oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of
new information, future developments or otherwise.
Investor Contact: |
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Westwicke |
|
Bob East |
|
Jordan Kohnstam |
|
Asher Dewhurst |
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(443) 213-0500 |
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hiiq@westwicke.com |
Media Contact: |
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Westwicke PR |
|
James Heins |
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(203) 682-8251 |
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james.heins@icrinc.com |
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