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I believe in the public option and universal coverage. Anything less is a failure. If Bush could get tax cuts for the rich and fund two senseless wars from the Democrats, why can't Obama get these?

It does not surprise me that many Americans would not favor these. We are a country that seems to think that others are not supposed to have the same things that we as indivduals feel entitled.

Old foggies in the Deomcrat Party need to get moving on healthcare reform, gay marrige, student loan reforms or we will lose young voters.

They need to start over! What is amazing is that most of these so-called provisions do not start for close to 8 years! The taxes, however, will start right away. How is this going to benefit anyone! Why is this Government not listening to America?

Start over from scratch???? Talk about wasteful spending!!

Starting over would be a great example of wasteful spending and wasted time. There's no reason to start over when MANY of the agreed upon elements are already there. Move ahead, get a decent start on a larger reform and add in elements each year as people begin to see what the benefits are.

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."-Zig Ziglar

Star over people, you're wasting time.

I support tort reform, but am opposed to a blanket ceiling on payments, for example, should doctors remove a good leg, a good eye, or a good kidney, etc., a limit of only $250,000 would be insufficient. Unfortunately, most who are pushing for reform take the superficial view.

Americans don't seem to understand that you can't force insurance companies to deny pre-existing conditions with out requiring that everyone by insurance. If we did that, everyone would wait until they got sick to get insurance and it would raise the rates of people who have insurance. Ending Recession and the denial of those that have pre-existing conditions is SO IMPORTANT! It is worth it to have a mandate to address those problems.

Here's an idea. How about dropping the rule that health insurance is required for everyone. BUT if you opt to not get insurance and then need medical care...you're out of luck. NO medical care for you unless you have the money to pay for it. The insured should not be forced to pay higher prices to make up for your unpaid bills.

This just goes to show you how well the republican propaganda machine works – or just how gullible Americans are for being against a health bill but agreeing with many or most of the provisions in it.

More great work from CNN's progressive pollsters! Those focus grouped questions make it next to impossible to see that only 24% of America supports ObamaCare as written..

After Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans, on Sept 11, we went to war and spent hundreds of billions of dollars ensuring that this would not happen again. Yet every two months, that many people die because of our failure to provide universal insurance — and yet many members of the GOP want us to do nothing?

Because Americans are stupid, and believe whatever their TV tells them to believe. Have a nice day, consumerbots!

This proves to me that such polls should have been taken during August and other months when the Tea Party took over the media's attention and wouldn't go away.

Health care overhaul is badly needed, in the COST of service. But to require all to carry insurance is crazy. Figure it out. Assume the average income is $30,000 gross and the the monthly health care insurance is $700. What does that leave for ALL the other family needs? $21,600. Now there are taxes, housing, food, and etc. What is wrong with this PICTURE? Insurance companies have become greedy. And our federal reps.???? They have great benefits-–what do they care? Let them be middle America and see. They haven't a clue.

Hmmm, well I asked many of my friends and they asked many of their friends, and they all want health care reform any way we can get it. And to all of you rich GOPers, no none of us are on Welfare, so we don't expect free healthcare; however, I don't think this poll is accurate because I was not contacted by a pollester and this poll was conducted a week ago. This is the dawning of a new day and a change is coming and so is health care reform!!!!!

I say start small, pass the legislation you all can agree on (see, CNN has listed it above for you)....then go to the other stuff...one issue at a time.....let the public absorb it, as well as the poltiicans.... National Health Insurance is doeable...it is the Process of getting there that so many are screwing up on. Get back to co ops...it's cheaper...will work for more people.

The only reason why this bill is unpopular is because republicans has worked so hard to scare people. Many who are talking does not even know what is included in the bill because they have not read it.

How can a bill be unpopular when the contents of the bill is popular. This makes no sense.

Health care is a rite- it ought not be a for profit business strangling the American public.

Go left people, go left. Join the rest of the civilized world.

This poll appears to have included questions that have greater depth and so have resulted in more reasonab le answers. Unfortunately, most polls have questions that are politically motivated and deliberately engineered to result in a desired response.

Everyone wants to end pre-existing conditions, and the only way to do that is to insure almost everyone. Get it done, Congress!

Problem is that if you allow force insurance companies to take on people with pre-existing conditions, there is less incentive for people to sign up for health insurance until they are ill. Not everyone of course, because you can always be hit by the proverbial bus, but there would seem to be some effect. So the most effective way to make the insurance for those folks affordable (to them personally or to the government) is to require everyone, including healthy young people, to have insurance. And they should, at a catastrophic level at least (and maybe preventive care), keeping in mind the bus. Unless we are going to find it acceptable to leave uninsured people dying on the threshold of the ER, then someone will pay for that care- meaning that all of us chip in somewhere.

I think a more accurate heading for this CNN report would be to say 'Some health care provisions are popular in the overall unpolular bills'.
There are any number of parts a majority of voters do not like and it is less than honest to cherry pick the popular parts as an agrument to pass the bills as a whole and not start over.

I was glad to see in the USA Today also published a poll on a parts break down. The results were very interesting. Things are more clear if you look at the whole picture.

The USA Today poll shows about a half dozen popular major parts getting an average of about 60% support with 67% being the highest.
It also shows only 42% support the bills as a whole. That leaves 58% who do not support the bill as a whole.
It also shows only 22% support requiring people to buy insurance or pay a fine and only 19% support the nearly 1 trillion dollar cost over 10 years. I'm pretty sure that there are a number of other parts that would get less than 50% support also like some of the tax increases, the mandate for a business to provide insurance, the 500 billion in cuts to Medicare, and the government funding for abortions in the Senate's and Obama's bills. But USA Today did not have any numbers on those.

So if you sort it out.
About 20% support the bills as a whole.
About 22% have mixed feelings but feel the good parts out weigh the bad. This gets you to the 42% who support the bill
About 18% have mixed feelings but feel the bad parts out weigh the good. This gets you to the average of 60% who at least like parts of the bills. I count myself in this group.
That leaves about 40% who don't seem to like much of anything in the bills. My guess some of these people must really like some parts of the bill but must find the bad so bad they just dismiss everything.

So it is really very simple when you look at the whole picture. Even though a majority of voters like some parts of the bills an EVEN LARGER majority don't like other parts. And when the voters add it all up a majority equates the bad stuff out weighs the good stuff. Of course you do not get that picture if you cherry pick out the parts you like and use it for talking points and spin.

Looks like a center right majority of 58% of voters are saying taking away freedom of choice and spending too much for the benefits or spending more than we can afford are show stoppers. Okay, I may be taking liberties assuming all 58% are fiscal conservative, center right, freedom loving patriots. Some of the 58% are probably far left liberal/progressive, nanny state, tax and spend, spend, spend socialists who will settle for nothing less than Universal single payer health care. Even Obama is smart enough to know that won't fly.
Obama and the liberal/progressives will never get it. Liberal/progressives prefer government controls, mandates and regulations over individual freedom and are mentally challenged were money and spending is involved.

America is the only industrialized nation on this planet without universal healthcare, and the reason? Because that's how Big Pharma and the Insurance monopolies want it. Remember how everyone complained about how expensive American made care were because of the health care costs? Well, this would have negated that arguement (before they could scare you about the unions). We as Americans have ALWAYS found the best way to do things. I believe that if we studied the other systems we could find a way to improve them and make them our own. Your taxes probably wouldn't go up (unless you're one of the .5% who make over $250,000 a year), but the money that is currently coming out of your paycheck to pay for some CEO's $5,000,000 bonus would be coming out to make sure you and your family could see a doctor at the time you wanted to see them, instead of having to wait until (God forbid) it might be too late.

We need health care reform and the money being spent to prevent reform proves there are excessive profits in our current system. Reform should start with a goal and I propose the following; Every citizen should have the same coverage that is available to members of congress at the same percentage of income. The base pay for a member of congress is $174,000 a year. The most popular health care plan available to all government workers is the popular Blue Cross and Blue Shield standard fee-for-service family plan. It carries a total premium of $1,120.47 per month, of which the beneficiary pays $356.59.. This is about 2.5% of a congressman's base salary. I am sure most American families would be very happy to pay 2.5% of their income for a health care plan that covers with low deductables and co pays, hospital, surgical and physician services, and mental health services, prescription drugs and "catastrophic" coverage against very large medical expenses. There are no waiting periods for coverage when new employees are hired, and there are no exclusions for preexisting conditions.
The government health care program is not centralized, government-run health care. It has drawn praise both from conservatives and liberals, including President Obama, who held it up as a model for his own health care proposals. We need to send a message to congress that we are demanding the same basic coverage they have at the same reasonable percentage of income.

There's a lot to not like about the health care reform bill and important measures that are missing. There needs to be a public option and the anti-abortion measures should be removed. There shouldn't be any mandates forcing people to buy insurance and taxes on people getting good insurance deals should be removed. Additionally, the insurance companies should be subject to the same anti-trust laws as any other company. In short, what they've got needs to be more progressive.

how is this conclusion possible?

CNN employees give up your Time Warner health care benefits.

"...many of the provisions in the existing bills are extremely popular, even among Republicans..."

If this is TRUE, then what are the RepubliCAN'Ts complaining about????

We need to pass this quickly. There are 20 million illegal aliens in dire straits.

I think that the proposal that the President has proposed is a good starting point. Seems Americans agree with at least 80% of his provisions. Let's see what the Republicans can ad to the pot on behalf of the American people not the insurance executives. Can"t wait until Thursday.

So forty-eight percent of the public wanted the health care bill currently proposed scrapped. I'm sure President Obama, in his infinite wisdom, will understand that they just hadn't read his plan yet and when they do, they'll just wet their pants in joy over its beauty.

Oops, it's basically the same as the bill they hate, only more expensive. Darn, that means the Campaigner in Chief needs to make another speech to better educate them on how great the plan and its increased government bureauracy are and to bash big insurance as the root of all evil in the world..

Pass Mr. Obama's compromise. Then give us a Public Option through reconciliation. It's the ONLY way (short of single payer) that the private (i.e."for profit) insurers will ever get serious about lowering costs and providing better service,

I wonder if the mouth breathing conservatives thinks this poll is a lie also, even though CNN has favorable opinons regarding Rubulican ideas? Anyway, as an true Independant, not a nutcase conservative or liberal pretending to have independent thought, most of this health insurance (because this bill does not begin to address HEALTHCARE reform) bill is crappy. First off, the notion of making people get health insurance is absurb. Offer affordable insurance to people and let them decide if they want it or not. If they don't, when they show up for medical care, turn them away, period. I know that is not a popular position but what the Republican party nor the Democrat Party is saying is that many people could have affordable insurance already and refuse to get it because they rather buy the latest designer clothes, cars they cannot afford etc rather than get medical insurance. I personally know 10 people here in Houston that have great jobs making $50,000 plus that don't have medical insurance that their company offers due to they rather spend their money on meaningless crap. Sure I would love to keep that $170 per pay check in my pocket, but make no mistake, if something happens to me, my wife or my son, we are covered minus the small co-pays. We are fortunate that all we ever had to use my insurance for is routine care but it is nice to know if something catastrophic happens, we can pay for our care. Hey CNN do a poll on that.! How many people have access to insurance coverage but reuse to get it. That's what I want to see. One more thought, Republicans, get that Malpractice payout cap provision in there, it makes no sense that people can win multi million dollor settlements for someones mistake. Don't get me wrong, people should pay for their mistakes but if a doctor or hospital kills my wife or son, what is 20 million dollors going to do. If you want to make it fair for the plantiffs, ensure that the hospital system or doctor is never able to provide Medical Care in the United States ever again. Takinf large amount s of money that they can in turn make again does not solve the problem.

Congress Is Looting Federal Worker, Military Retirement Funds, Says William Fruth, Founder of 10 Amendments for Freedom ... check into this

Only the States have the right under the Constitution to make health care plans...if only the President and legislaters were lawyers...oh wait, they are....umm if only they were able to READ......oh they can...as long as it's pork...never mind.....

And before you paid knuckle draggers jump on the blog, I suggest you go to WhiteHouse.gov and actually read the proposed bill. It is under Issues then Health Care then click on the link. There is even a tab label "Republican Ideas". For definition of "tab" and hands on instruction see your nearest 8 year old, unless of course, that 8 year old is in any way genetically linked to you. This includes your sister's kids which might also be one of yours. Just to be safe, better stay away from any "brothers" or "sisters" as well.

Wow, those 3 days of Obama bashing by CPAC, were just a primer to the new discussion format! I hope I am a quick study!

There it breaks out which Red ideas were included in the original bills passed by Congress, such as tort reform and all of the 9 new ones that President Obama has included in his proposal.

Then you will not embarrass yourself by getting on an international blog whining about no tort reform, blah, blah, blah.

I know it is easier to get the talking points from Fake the News and it does make you look even more stupid than you would normally, so all is not lost.

As I have said before, your entitled to your Fake "opinion" but to your own set of "facts"..

About 5% of the population identify themselves as Liberal (better know as The American Al Queda). They are also extremely unpopular

I think all the Congress and Senate votes and debates ought to be filmed like the one tomorrow. I am sick of Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans who have no one, but their own interest in mind. We have voted for the public option and no one will listen. We want healthcare reform. The Republicans keep referencing, "The people don't want this". Where do they get that? All the polls say we do want a strong healthcare reform that includes public option. I would prefer single payer. I am feeling like no one is representing me. Our president is trying, but, he cannot do it alone.

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Sounds about right. In fact, sounds just about perfectly analogous to most of America's thinking in terms of the government taking action and being involved. Just look at how they behave in terms of "pork," i.e., "everyone else's pork is bad, but my pork is good." As with that, so with this:

"I like tort reform because my ex-wife's divorce lawyer took me to the cleaners, but I hate entitlement programs because I don't need them, so anyone supporting the subsidies for poor folks is a dope smoking oprah watcher"

"I like removing the antitrust exceptions and preventing the pre-existing conditions loopholes because those are common sense reforms, but I hate tort reform because I took my doctor to the cleaners when my sutures got infected"

Yeah yeah. Shut up. We get it. You're gonna like some of it, but not all of it. That's called compromise. Accept it...because guess what? If we only passed bills through Congress for which we've removed all provisions that a minority of the population doesn't like, Congress would be pushing around blank pages all day. That is precisely the situation created by the power giant corporations and industries wield through lobbyists. For some, like the Teatards, who think no government is better than an active, involved government, blank pages would be their wet dream. For those of us living in reality, it's just not a practical option. Blank paper is for wiping.

Yet republican and democrat senators and representatives can't simply extract these worthwhile provisions and pass a bill today that would deal with this. The stupidity of our egocentric government makes me wonder how our politicians remember to breath. This all or nothing, with us or against us crap makes a playground dispute over who gets to use the see-saw look intelligent.

This shouldn't be about winning, inflated egos,left or right. I'll just keep voting against the incumbent until these idiots get it right. Good luck with the independent vote come November.

OBOZO and the rest of The Criminal anti American Radical Fringe Libtard Party Members (aka The American Al Queda Party) are all disgraceful and disgusting animals. They should all be put in cages and displayed in a zoo somewhere.

Sounds about right. In fact, sounds just about perfectly analogous to most of America's thinking in terms of the government taking action and being involved. Just look at how they behave in terms of "pork," i.e., "everyone else's pork is bad, but my pork is good." As with that, so with this:

"I like tort reform because I hate lawyers, but I hate entitlement programs because I don't need them, so anyone supporting the subsidies for poor fools is a dope smoking oprah watcher"

"I like removing antitrust exceptions and preventing the pre-existing conditions loopholes because those are common sense reforms, but I hate tort reform because my ex-wife's divorce lawyer took me to the cleaners"

Yeah yeah. Shut up. We get it. You're gonna like some of it, but not all of it. That's called compromise. Accept it...because guess what? If we only passed bills through Congress for which we've removed all provisions that a minority of the population doesn't like, Congress would be pushing around blank pages all day. That is precisely the situation created by the power giant corporations and industries wield through lobbyists. For some, like the Teatards, who think no government is better than an active, involved government, blank pages would be their wet dream. For those of us living in reality, it's just not a practical option. Blank paper is for wiping.

I want to know who said they want "to scrap their "job-killing health care bill" and start over. I was never surveyed. How can you make an all encompassing statement with a survey of less than 1500 people. I just turned 62 and was laid off by the Department of Defense. Two months ago I was notified that my insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) raised my premium 10%. On top of that I just saw where my co-pay went up from $20 to $30.

Something must be done with this health system.

"WAKE UP AMERICA", DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE LIES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, OUR HEALTH SYSTEM IS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE. IT IS NOT JOB KILLING. WE HAVE BEEN OVER FEEDING THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY FOR TOO LONG. WE NEED CHANGES "NOW" NOT IN THE "UNFORESEABLE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICANS.

Yet republican and democrat senators and representatives can't simply extract these worthwhile provisions and pass a bill today that would deal with this. The stupidity of our egocentric government makes me wonder how are politicians remember to breath. This all or nothing, with us or against us crap makes a playground dispute over who gets to use the see-saw look intelligent.

This shouldn't be about winning, inflated egos,left or right. I'll just keep voting for the opposite guy until these idiots get it right. Good luck with the independent vote come November.

Some provisions are popular but this paragraph says it all:

"Twenty-five percent of people questioned in the poll say Congress should pass legislation similar to the bills passed by both chambers, with 48 percent saying lawmakers should work on an entirely new bill and a quarter saying Congress should stop all work on health care reform."

All together 73% say either stop wor\k on health care reform or work on an entirely new bill.

The headline should read:

73% Of Americans Say They Don't Want the Current Health Care Reform Bill.

Thanks for the spin CNN

Where are the numbers for voters for/against taking taxes and buying insurance for the welfare crowd? Or is that something that is not to be discussed?

It seems that what the American people don't who don't like a public option and don't like the mandate for coverage don't really understand that the things that they do like can't be achieved without these items. The insurance industries can't insure everyone, even those with pre-existing conditions, and keep premiums down unless everyone participates.

Republicans are running scared and making excuses not to attend the health care summit. Let's wait and see how many of these do nothing cowards will show to say NO.

Republicans are WRONG in claiming the majority of Americans oppose the health insurance reform. This poll and other polls that also prove the majority of Americans feel this way, including approval of the public option in addition to the fact that the Democrats are the majority party because that's how the majority of Americans wanted it should be enough to get them to shut up and pass this legislation that we all need NOW!

this poll only confirms my worries that people are stupid. how can you not like the bill but like most of whats in the bill?????

It's called political smear. The Repubs. excel at it.

The Government ( GOP & DEM ) will never bail out Main Street USA or create Universal Health Care. Here is the good part, we can start believing in ourselves, move forward with our lives, and tell Washington to drop dead, they need us more than we need them. There is a lot of power in relinquishing Washington's control over our lives and future.

The Great Depression was the same way, Americans finally gave up on \" Help is on the way \" and created their own help called \" Self Reliance \". That's how Mom, Dad, Grand Pa and Grand Ma did it, and that's how we have to do it. Lets stop the whining and crying, get out there and make it happen, we are Americans, we can do anything! Good Bye, Good Luck, and don't forget to write!

Papasan in AZ

The public does not like the bill because they don't understand it and because of the way it proceeded in Congress, not because of the content. Republicans are misreading the public here. Obama needs to use the opportunity at Thursday's health care summit to explain the elements of the plan and win back popular support for these elements. The public needs to understand that you can't have the popular elements without the whole package to pay for the popular elements. If you don't require everybody to participate, you can't have the popular measures enacted. It's that simple.

The discussion of the content of the bill has been so skewed and distorted with outright lies and propaganda. When people learn the details it's much more appealing. The MSM – mainly Fox and the republicans have done a real disservice to their constituents. I look forward to them and their lies being blatantly exposed.

Pkm wy wife is at stanford univ hospital fighting for her life if i did not have insurance i would be in the street do you repubs under stand what im saying

A Rassmusen Poll out today shows that 71% of americans think Congress is doing a bad job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So let me get this straight, democrats hold majorities in both houses of Congress and are pushing a left liberal agenda and 71% of americans dissaprove of the job congress is doing. Uh oh dems, I think I hear the fat lady singing, unless they start voting the way their consituents want and not what the president of ACORN wants they're political careers are over.

Some things that should be incorporated in the ;health-care bill. 1. tort reform 2. be able to buy insurance across state lines 4. allow small business join together to get better and cheaper health insurance. 5. regulate insurance companies through states, not federal government. 6. NO! public option, keep the government out of making our choices. 7. make insurace companies be unaable to deny insurace due pre-existing health problems. 8. help the out of work be able to get medicaide 9. make it cheaper to buy medicare advantage plans. SDO IN OTHER WORDS, START OVER.

Since the majority of Americans want AND need health care reform why does the GOP do everything in their power to stop it???

It is amazing how uncontrolled corporate money can make people be against something they are fundamentally for. Legislating from the bench is a horrible conservative agenda. Are you listening Supreme Court?

LIberals won't listen, they are determined to finish the process of destroying this country they have started under that idiot president of theirs.

Everyone want health care for all. The answer is not ruining health care for everyone. Read Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's plan. It is clearly the best option.
However, you obamabots will keep call gop party of no.

Pass HealthCare Reform Legislation !! And PLEASE, By the Grace of God, PASS IT NOW !!

Sorry, CNN. All your polls are wrong. Sorry Americans, what you think you think is not what you think. Republican leaders in Congress will tell you what you think.

So Congressional Democrats...The ONLY reason you will loose in November is if YOU DO NOT PASS HEALTHCARE and if you keep bashing President Obama.

Believe it or not the GOP has market reforms that would reduce premiums across the country. Obama's one trillion dollar welfare system will just bankrupt the country.