Public wellbeing report · Policies

Rural Outpatient Quality Act

Improves Medicare payments for outpatient services in Alaska and Hawaii, accounting for local cost-of-living.

#245
of 704 ranked policies
Top 36%
59.2% of matchups won 821 matchups Elo 1558 tracked 2025/08/06 → 2025/09/26

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Public sentiment

how often it gets picked, by matchup framing
52%
picked as helping wellbeing
311 matchups
64%
picked as hurting wellbeing
510 matchups

On balance people see it as hurting.

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Rating over time

Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-30

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Based on 821 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2025/09/26. Full rankings ·

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