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    Voter Attitudes Towards Health Care Plan Harden - 58% Oppose

    Voter Attitudes Towards Health Care Plan Harden - 58% Opposed

    Wednesday, December 30, 2009

    Many have questioned whether those who favor or oppose the health care plan in Congress really know what’s in it. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey suggests that they have a decent understanding of the bill and that voter attitudes towards the legislation have hardened.

    While several individual components of the plan are popular, reminding voters of what’s included in the plan has virtually no impact on support for the overall legislation. This suggests that there are not major surprises in the legislation that will cause people to change their opinion of it.

    Thirty-nine percent (39%) of voters nationwide support the plan, and 58% are opposed. That’s consistent with our weekly tracking of the issue which has found support between 38% and 41% every week from just before Thanksgiving to the end of 2009.

    The new figures include 19% who Strongly Favor the plan and 46% who Strongly Oppose it.

    After measuring their opinion of the legislation, Rasmussen Reports then asked survey respondents if they favored or opposed 12 individual aspects of the plan. The individual proposals mentioned were based upon a summary of the legislation provided by the New York Times. After offering their opinions on all 12 items, the participants in the survey were asked again if they favored or opposed the legislation.

    After considering their views of the individual aspects of the plan, there was virtually no change in overall opinions of the legislation. Before hearing about the individual aspects of the plan, 39% favored the legislation, and 58% were opposed. After hearing the details, 39% were in favor, and 60% opposed.

    Hardly anybody who initially had strong feelings changed their mind. Of those who initially Strongly Favored the plan, just four percent (4%) opposed it after hearing the details. Among those who Strongly Favor the legislation, only one percent (1%) favored it after listening to the component parts. There was some modest shifting between those who somewhat favored or somewhat opposed the legislation.

    These findings, combined with the stability of opinion over the past six weeks, suggest that voter opinion has reached a point of stability and is unlikely to shift significantly prior to the final congressional vote. It is, of course, possible that actual implementation of the program could shift opinion in either direction.

    It is interesting to note that attitudes towards the plan vary sharply based upon what people see as the primary problem with health care today. Fifty-three percent (53%) say cost is the biggest problem while 23% cite the lack of universal coverage and 13% name the quality of care.

    Among those who see the lack of universal coverage as the biggest problem, 86% favor the legislation.

    However, among the majority who see cost as the biggest issue, 68% are opposed.

    As for those who see the quality of care as the top issue, 87% are opposed to the plan before Congress.

    Data released earlier today showed that 78% believe the actual cost of the legislation will be higher than projected. Voters overwhelmingly believe that passage will lead to higher deficits and higher middle-class taxes.

    Survey participants were asked whether they favored or opposed the following items during the survey:

    · The plan before Congress would require every American to buy or obtain health insurance.

    · The plans before Congress would prohibit people from choosing insurance plans with lower premiums and higher deductibles.

    · The plan would require nearly all employers to provide health insurance for their employees or pay a penalty.

    · The plan would provide subsidies to help low-income people buy health insurance and expand Medicaid to help the poorest get insurance.

    · The plan would impose new rules on insurance companies and force them to accept all applicants without regard to pre-existing conditions.

    · The legislation in Congress would spend several hundred billion dollars over the coming decade to expand coverage of the uninsured.

    · The plan before Congress would create an independent board to carry out cost-control reforms within Medicare.

    · Another proposal would create an insurance exchange where people can shop for competing insurance plans.

    · The plan would prohibit coverage of abortion by any insurance plan that receives federal government subsidies.

    · To pay for the plan, one proposal would enact a significant excise tax on the most expensive health insurance plans provided by employers.

    · Another proposal to pay for the plan would impose an income tax surcharge on individuals who earn more than $500,000 a year and couples who earn more than $1 million a year.

    · To help cover the cost of expanding insurance coverage, the plan before Congress would reduce spending on Medicare by several hundred billion dollars.

    Responses to the individual components of the plan will be released later.
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    So the 39% supporters are they all AMERICANS? If Americans cannot afford medical care isn't Medicaid for them?

    Many put in for medicaid if they are unemployed, don't they? Who is entitled to Medicaid already?

    In the Health Care Bill 400 percentage of poverty level for a family of four wouldn't that cover many Americans earning up to $29,000.

    Something is wrong with this Health Care Bill?

    So how is the employer tax going to work for Health Care Bill? Is it going to a tax on GROSS INCOME of Businesses?
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