We don’t use public opinion polls in, you know, archaeology either. The entire experience of accessing and paying for health care in America is purposely confusing. Health care policy is one of the most opaque and convoluted areas of public policy. naturally!—do not have a deep well of health care policy expertise to draw on that they will use to offer sophisticated policy solutions on demand to telephone pollsters. Donate to our reporting fundPolls are used in political discourse when they serve the interests of the groups publishing the polls.