GoodMorning America(ABC News) reported the results of their new poll this morning. They focused on Obama's approval rating which is 56% AND they reported on support for the overall health reform Bill which is 48% FOR and 49% AGAINST.
For some reason they did not say what the support was for the Public Option(something they have always did recently), so I looked up the results of the poll myself and found out why.
- Would you support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance
plan to compete with private health insurance plans?
-------- Support --------
53%
--------- Oppose --------
43%
- What if this government-sponsored plan
is available only to people who do not receive insurance through an employer, or
through the existing Medicare or Medicaid programs – in that case would you support or
oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with
private health insurance plans?
------- Support -------
72%
--------- Oppose --------
28%
http://abcnews.go.com/...
Some other interesting results are:
Views on abortion coverage also underscore how details matter. Sixty-one percent say insurance
policies bought using government assistance should not be allowed to include coverage for
abortions. But if the insurance companies use private funds, not public money, in providing
abortion coverage – the workaround some Democrats have proposed – support for allowing that
coverage gains very sharply, up 21 points to 56 percent.
Cover abortion?
With public funds YES-35% NO-61%
With private funds YES-56% NO-43%
Americans by 2-1, 61 percent to 31 percent, say leaders of the Republican Party are
mainly criticizing Obama without presenting other ideas, rather than offering alternatives to his
proposals. Independents, the center of politics, hold this view by 54-37 percent.
Link to ABC News article: http://abcnews.go.com/...