Fewer Confident In Government’s Handling Of COVID-19

SANTA CLARA, Calif., /PRNewswire/ -- Today eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) (eHealth.com), a leading online private health insurance marketplace, released results from a new survey of more than 1,000 Americans on COVID-19, two years into the pandemic.

Respondents were more likely to say their confidence in the government's handling of the crisis has decreased rather than increased in the past year (38% vs. 26%), and nearly three in ten report that they have had difficulty accessing COVID tests in the past six months.

Additional key findings:

• 48% of respondents say they disapprove of the government's handling of the omicron variant.
• Fewer than half (47%) say they would comply with open-ended COVID booster recommendations from government or medical authorities.
• If elections were held today, 78% say the government's handling of the COVID crisis would be among their top three priorities, compared to only 46% in November of 2020.
• 25% say they have skipped getting tested because it was hard for them to find testing options.
• Respondents were more likely to express concern about not having access to medical care for non-COVID needs (78%) than about contracting the omicron variant (74%).

Read the full report.

eHealth's survey of general population respondents was conducted in January of 2022 and a total of 1,077 responses were collected. For additional information, please refer to the full report.