Health Care Law
56% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law; 54% Say Law Is Bad for Country
Monday, August 23, 2010 Email to a Friend ShareThis.Advertisement
Fifty-six percent (56%) of U.S. voters continue to favor repeal of the national health care bill, with 46% who Strongly Favor repeal.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 40% oppose repeal of the health care plan, including 28% who Strongly Oppose it.
Interestingly, there is no difference of opinion on this question between voters with health insurance and those without.
Last week, support for repeal among all voters hit 60%, the highest level in over a month, but those favoring repeal has ranged from 52% to 63% since the health care law was passed by Congress in March. Opposition to the law remains as high since its passage as it was in the months before the measure became law.
Just 36% think the health care plan will be good for the country, while 54% believe its impact will be bad.
Belief that the law will be bad for the country is up four points from a week ago and has ranged from a low of 49% to a high of 57%. Those who think the law will be good for America have ranged from 32% to 41%, but that number has risen out of the 30s only twice since April.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on August 21-22, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95%level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Eighty-one percent (81%) of voters with health insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent. But those voters continue to have mixed feelings when asked if the new health care law will force them to change their coverage.
Forty-two percent (42%) say it is at least somewhat likely that passage of the health care law means they will have to change their insurance, with 24% who say it is Very Likely. Forty-six percent (46%) think it is unlikely that they will be forced to change their health insurance coverage, but that includes only 16% who say it is Not At All Likely.
Since passage of the law, belief among those with health insurance that they will have to change that coverage has remained in a narrow range of 40% to 44%, while the number of those who do not think a change will be necessary has hovered around the mid-40s. But in February, nearly half (49%) said it was likely they’d have to change health coverage. That number was over 50% in surveys conducted back to June of last year.
Republicans and voters not affiliated with either party continue to strongly favor repeal and to believe that the health care measure will be bad for the country. Democrats just as solidly oppose repeal and think the law will be good for America.
Voters in all three groups with health insurance give high marks to their existing coverage. But Democrats don’t share the fear that Republicans and unaffiliateds have that they will be forced to change that coverage.
Seventy-six percent (76%) of Mainstream voters favor repeal of the health care law. Eighty-seven percent (87%) of the Political Class oppose repeal.
With midterm elections less than three months away, nearly two-out-of-three voters (65%) remain at least somewhat angry at the current policies of the federal government, including 40% who are Very Angry.
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