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How to Talk About Values

Americans Share Our Values.  Let's Start There.

A Messaging Guide

Messages and Results: Total Sample & Subgroups

Message
Mean Rating
If you have to go to the ER, your biggest worry should be the reason you came in, not the bill you'll come out with.
89.9
Everyone in this country should be able to see the doctor when they're sick.
89.7
Members of Congress have no business voting themselves better or more affordable healthcare plans than they guarantee their constituents.
88.4
No one should have to choose between food for their kids and a pediatrician when they're sick.
88.2
Members of Congress shouldn't have better healthcare than the people they represent, and if they do, they need to change either ours or theirs - we'll give them until November.
87.4
Our government needs to negotiate drug prices the way every other country does, so drug companies can't set whatever prices they want.
85.8
If health insurance companies can afford to pay their CEOs over $20 million a year, they can afford to cut our deductibles to a thousandth of that, $2000 a year, so no one has to go without healthcare.
85.8
It's time to cap the premiums, copays, and deductibles insurance companies can charge, to make insurance affordable for working Americans.
85
It's time to finish the job we began 15 years ago, when we required health insurance companies to meet high minimum standards, by limiting what they can charge, because every time they raise our premiums and deductibles, their profits and CEO salaries skyrocket.
84.6
We need to protect and extend health care to small business owners, their families, and their workers.
84
The country that develops the world's medications shouldn't pay the most for them, especially when our tax dollars supported their development.
83.6
We need to protect hospitals and maternity wards in rural and urban communities, not let Wall Street raiders buy them up, close them, and sell the parts like old cars.
83.6
Millions of Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their healthcare to fund more tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
82.4
Healthcare is a right, not a privilege - it is undeniably part of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
81.9
Healthcare is essential to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" - the most central rights enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
81.4
We need to eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicaid and Medicare and warn Americans about the dangers of socialized medicine like Medicare for All.
69.2
Obamacare is a catastrophe. Always was. It's not very good today.
47.9

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