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Health
Care Law
57% of Voters Favor
Repeal of Health Care Law, 38% Opposed
Monday, Feb. 14, 2011
Most voters continue to strongly favor repeal of the national health
care law and they’re evenly divided as to whether the new law will
force them to change insurance coverage.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of
Likely Voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care law
while 38% are at least somewhat opposed. Those figures include 45% who
Strongly Favor repeal and 31% who Strongly Oppose repeal.
Earlier polling has shown that 75% of voters want the health care law
changed, but even most of those who want it repealed would like
something new to replace it.
Among voters who have health insurance, 44% say it’s likely they will
have to change their insurance coverage while 46% think it’s
unlikely. These findings are broadly consistent with findings for
most of the past two years. However, last month, following a wave of
publicity about new provisions of the law taking effect, only 34% were
concerned that they might be forced to switch coverage.
Consistent with findings for the past several years, 79% of voters with
health insurance rate their current coverage as good or excellent.
Support for repeal is virtually unchanged from last week. Weekly
tracking since the bill was signed into law by President Obama last
March has shown support for repeal ranging from a low of 50% to a high
of 63%.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on February 12-13, 2011
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.
As they have from the beginning of the health care debate, all voters
nationwide see cost reduction as more important than ensuring universal
coverage.
Most Republicans (81%) and voters not affiliated with either political
party (53%) continue to favor repeal of the health care law, while most
Democrats (59%) oppose repeal.
Fifty percent (50%) of Likely Voters say the health care plan will be
bad for the country, a view that has remained in the narrow range of
48% to 55% since late March. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say the
new health care overhaul will be good for the United States.
Recent polling finds that 72% of voters consider health care a Very
Important issue, placing this issue just behind the economy in terms of
voter importance. Republicans – by a 52% to 38% margin – are
trusted more than Democrats to handle this issue.
Read it with links at Rasmussen
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