When respondents were given several choices on how to proceed with health reform, this is how they responded:
- 43.9 percent wanted Congress to start over;
- 25.1 percent wanted Congress to pass some kind of reform bill and then fix it later; and
- 18.1 percent backed Democratic leaders’ current strategy of having the U.S. House pass the Senate reform bill, along with legislation to modify it.
Opponents of the bill outnumber supporters, in the following ways:
- 50.8 percent oppose the Democrats’ reform bill and 40.3 percent support it;
- 43.2 percent of opponents “strongly oppose” the bill, compared with 19.8 percent of supporters who “strongly support” it; and
- 42.9 percent of all respondents oppose the reform bills more than they did a year ago, compared with 32.8 percent who said they were more supportive.
Read The Hill’s report on health reform.
