The AFL-CIO ran a online survey for seven weeks asking about health care concerns. Not surprisingly given the source a majority of respondents were union members. Not surprisingly given the online manner of polling a majority of were college educated. Not surprisingly given these facts, a majority of respondents had health insurance. Despite this, 95 percent of respondents said “America’s health care system needs fundamental change or to be completely rebuilt”. You can see all the results here.

This is all overt. The Kaiser Family Foundation applies some subtle spin in its summary of news stories on the AFL-CIO’s report: Where the Chicago Sun-Times wrote “Most of the survey respondents were employed, college graduates, union members and had insurance…” KFF wrote “Most survey respondents had jobs, college degrees and health insurance (Knowles, Chicago Sun-Times, 3/26). Union members accounted for 57% of survey respondents.”