Public Purists, Privatization Proponents and the Curious: Canada’s three health-care mindsets. Politics drives privatization views: half of CPC voters are proponents, most NDP voters are public purists
Debates about health care in Canada tend to volley back and forth between privatization and public care – one side or the other. The Angus Reid Institute used responses from 11 different questions about health-care delivery, scoring respondents on their support or opposition to private care, and developed three Health-Care Mindsets that go beyond the black and white. For Index scoring, please view the Appendix.
All three mindsets are found across age, gender, income, education and political demographics. That said, each mindset is home to unique characteristics:Two-thirds of past NDP voters and 52 per cent of past Liberal voters are Purists
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