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Rasmussen
Reports…
75% Want Health Care
Law Changed
Friday, January 14, 2011
Voters overwhelmingly want to see last year’s health care law changed,
but there is substantial disagreement about how best to do it.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75%
of Likely U.S. Voters want to change the law, while only 18% want it
left alone. Those figures include 20% who want the law repealed and
nothing done to replace it, 28% who want it repealed and then have its
most popular provisions put into a new law and 27% who say leave the
law in place but get rid of the unpopular provisions.
It is worth noting that a majority (55%) take one of the middle ground
approaches—repeal and replace or leave it and improve.
Overall, 48% take an approach that starts with repeal. That’s lower
than support for repeal measured generally in Rasmussen Reports weekly
tracking polls on the subject. It is likely that some people who
prefer repeal when there are no other options for change are drawn to
the idea of leaving the law in place and removing the unpopular
provisions.
Just after Election Day in early November, 52% of voters said Congress
should review the health care bill piece by piece and keep the parts it
likes. Thirty-nine percent (39%) disagreed and said Congress
should scrap the whole bill and start all over again.
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