Does Your Health Care Make You Sick?
AFSCME wants to know how you feel about your health care:
Whether you love it or hate it.
This is your chance to sound off about health care, one of the hottest issues in America today.
AFSCME wants to make sure that its members — and all Americans — are getting the health care they deserve.
And, if your name is one of 30 selected in a random drawing, you could win a specially designed AFSCME T-shirt.
1. Does your employer give you enough medical plans to choose from?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
2. Do you have enough information about the health insurance plans your employer offers to make an informed choice?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
3. If you had the opportunity, would you prefer to use a physician (or other health care professional) who is a union member over a non-union physician or health care professional?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
4. Have you changed your health care provider in the last five years for any of the following reasons? Choose as many as needed.
- Changed jobs.
- Out-of-pocket payments (co-pays and deductibles) became too expensive.
- Physician left the program I was in.
- Health insurance changed choices.
- Dissatisfied with previous plan.
- Health provider was bought, sold, merged or went out of business.
- Employer changed health insurance providers.
5. If you disagree with a decision made by your health care professional, medical plan or insurance company, do you have the opportunity to appeal the decision?
- Yes
- No
- Not Sure
6. I think my health care professional makes decisions about my treatment based on financial considerations:
- Frequently
- From time to time
- Never
7. With all the changes going on in America’s health care system, I believe the government should play a larger role in monitoring and setting standards for health care.
- Strongly agree
- Somewhat agree
- Disagree somewhat
- Strongly disagree
Please return this form, with your name and address, to AFSCME Public Affairs Department, 1625 L St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-5687.
