Story Highlights
- Less than half now rate U.S. healthcare quality as excellent or good
- Americans’ 72% positive rating of own healthcare quality also a new low
- Evaluations of U.S. healthcare coverage, cost are more subdued but steady

By Gallup, Lydia Saad
(January 19, 2023) WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare, with 48% rating it “excellent” or “good.” The slight majority now rate healthcare quality as subpar, including 31% saying it is “only fair” and 21% — a new high — calling it “poor.”
SOURCE: https://news.gallup.com/poll/468176/americans-sour-healthcare-quality.aspx