Not at all, not at all:
- 60% agree that a current Democrat proposal to send the Senate health care bill to the president without voting up or down on it is “unfair.”
- 81% health care reforms that would increase insurance premiums for healthy people to offset premiums of people who wait until they are diagnosed with an illness to purchase insurance.
- 81% oppose allowing the government to decide what kind of health care coverage Americans are able to purchase.
- 87% oppose having a government panel recommend or decide what medical procedures or medical advances your doctor or health plan can or cannot use.
- 84% support reforms that would allow people to buy health insurance where it is the least expensive, such as across state lines.
- 76% oppose health care reforms that would raise taxes and cut Medicare benefits to pay for health care subsidies for expanded coverage for those currently insured.
- 78% support health care reforms that would let people buy less costly health plans and save and invest for health care needs in the future on a tax-free basis.
- 51% oppose health care reforms that would let people lock-in premiums by paying more for their insurance.
- 85% support health care reforms that would let people get lower premiums for getting or staying healthy.
- 82% support the idea that more money should be invested in the development of cures for the most devastating diseases.
- 47% oppose increasing Medicare payroll taxes for high wage earners (46% support)
- 48% oppose reducing what doctors and hospitals are paid for their services (45% support).
- 47% think it is credible that the new health care proposal will increase taxes and insurance premiums for 73 million Americans (44% say it is not).
More info as to where this data / poll came from:
Today, the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance (CMPI-A), in partnership with Pajamas Media, is releasing national survey data on Americans’ views of the proposed health care reform legislation before Congress…GfK Roper completed 1,000 interviews with a nationally-representative sample of Americans ages 18 years old and over. The interviews were conducted between March 12 and March 14, 2010. The average margin of error for the total sample is ± 3 percentage points.

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