The February 2025 issue of National Review is out now online, soon to arrive in your mailbox if you’re a subscriber. Here’s my feature, The Stat, from this issue:

81 percent — the proportion of Americans with health insurance who like their plan, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance.

The 2023 KFF survey was nationally representative and included people with many different kinds of health insurance. In total, 81 percent of people said their health insurance was “excellent” or “good.” Only 3 percent said it was “poor.” This has been a long-running finding of similar surveys over many years. If you ask Americans what they think about health insurance in general, they are more likely to respond negatively, but if you ask them about their own health insurance, the vast majority respond positively. That’s why Barack Obama had to lie about Obamacare by saying, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” He knew lots of Americans liked their plans. (And the KFF survey found that Obamacare marketplace plans are the least-well-liked type of health insurance.) There are plenty of problems with American health insurance, but despite them, most Americans are satisfied with their plan. Ours is not a nation of spiteful health-insurance customers infected by murderous rage, no matter what left-wing demagogues say.