Survey finds hospital favorability strong, health and pharmaceutical companies not so much

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – An end-of-year survey done by Mason-Dixon Polling by the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association shows Charlottesville area and Shenandoah Valley residents with highly favorable views of hospital care they have received here, but highly unfavorable views of health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Julian Walker with the VHHA told Cville Right Now the numbers are, in fact, very uniform whether you look at regional or statewide breakdowns, “What we see is when you look at cross tabs, even when you break it down by region or partisan identification, these numbers tend to hold true.”

82% of respondents in the “central Virginia/Shenandoah” region viewed Virginia’s hospitals favorably with 13% unfavorable…

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