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TABLE: Senior Priorities

Do you agree or disagree that the federal government should guarantee...

A Social Security pension?

AGREE STRONGLY 75%

AGREE SOMEWHAT 16%

DISAGREE SOMEWHAT 5%

DISAGREE STRONGLY 3%

NOT SURE/REFUSED 1%

Some level of health care?

AGREE STRONGLY 59%

AGREE SOMEWHAT 23%

DISAGREE SOMEWHAT 11%

DISAGREE STRONGLY 6%

NOT SURE/REFUSED 1%

Nursing-home care?

AGREE STRONGLY 49%

AGREE SOMEWHAT 29%

DISAGREE SOMEWHAT 14%

DISAGREE STRONGLY 8%

NOT SURE/REFUSED 0%

342 respondents aged 50 and over included in a survey of 1,007 adults conducted

Nov. 2-6, 1995, for BUSINESS WEEK by Louis Harris & Associates Inc.