Table 12.
Improving and Protecting the Nation’s Health/Health
GSS/NORC: “We are faced with many problems in this country, none of which can be solved easily or inexpensively. I’m going to name some of these problems, and for each one I’d like you to tell me whether you think we’re spending too much money on it, too little money, or about the right amount. First, improving and protecting the nation’s health/health, are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on … Improving and protecting the nation’s health/health?”
| 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | ||||||
| Too little | 69 | 72 | 77 | 72 | 74 | |||||
| About right | 22 | 20 | 14 | 17 | 13 | |||||
| Too much | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 11 | |||||
| Don’t know | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| N | 1,414 | 1,401 | 1,415 | 1,529 | 1,042 | |||||
| 2010 | 2012 | |||||||||
| % | % | |||||||||
| Too little | 59 | 59 | ||||||||
| About right | 17 | 21 | ||||||||
| Too much | 21 | 17 | ||||||||
| Don’t know | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| N | 1,020 | 965 |