For over a decade now, Gallup has polled Americans on their satisfaction with health-care costs. They've recently noticed a gap between satisfaction of the privately insured and those with Medicare or Medicaid, which widened in the most recent round of research:
The changing landscape of health insurance in recent decades could be affecting privately insured Americans' satisfaction with their health costs. The vast majority (64%) of Americans with private insurance now say their health premiums costs are shared. This is up from 54% in 2001. While the 22% saying they personally pay the entire cost has not changed appreciably, the 10% saying their employer pays the entire cost is down by more than half from 2001.