Prince George Citizen polled 861 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Are you in support of a national pharmacare program?
The poll ran from Feb. 15 to 27. Of the 861 votes, we can determine that 493 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Yes, prescribed medications should be available free to everyone 37.93% local, 38.44% total
Mostly yes, but I'm concerned about the overall cost 35.50% local, 31.94% total
Not sure 4.06% local, 4.88% total
Mostly no, most people have personal or employer benefit plans to cover these expenses 8.32% local, 10.69% total
No, will lead to over-prescribing and excessive spending 14.20% local, 14.05% total
Local Total
Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.32%, 19 times out of 20.
Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
