58% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, 37% are opposed to repeal

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Health Care Law

58% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law; Most Still Expect Costs To Rise and Quality To Suffer

Monday, February 07, 2011

The majority of voters still support repeal of the new national health care law and remain convinced that it will drive up the cost and hurt the quality of health care in the country.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% of Likely U.S. Voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care law, with 44% who Strongly Favor it. Thirty-seven percent (37%) are opposed to repeal, including 26% who Strongly Oppose. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

These numbers mark little change from a week ago and are consistent with findings since March of last year when Democrats passed the law. Support for repeal has ranged from 50% to 63% in weekly tracking since then. The new Republican-controlled House recently voted to repeal the law, but the Senate with its Democratic majority is not expected to follow suit.

Similarly unchanged is the belief by 56% of voters that the cost of health care will go up under the new law, a view shared by 53% to 61% since last March. Twenty percent (20%) disagree and expect costs to go down. Nineteen percent (19%) say they will stay about the same.

Only 21% say the quality of health care will get better under the new law. Fifty-two percent (52%) say quality will get worse, while 22% predict that it will stay the same. Since last March, the number who think the new law will worsen health care quality has ranged from 48% to 55%.

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on February 4-5, 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.

Thirty-six percent (36%) of voters believe the health care plan will be good for the country. As they have nearly every week since last March, most voters – 53% now – say the plan will be bad for America. Just three percent (3%) say it will have no impact.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) think the plan will increase the federal budget deficit. Eighteen percent (18%) say it will reduce the deficit, and 13% say it will have no impact. This, too, is in line with findings for months. Earlier polling showed that voters discount CBO projections of deficit reduction because they overwhelmingly believe the new law will cost more than projected.

Most Democrats continue to support the health care law, and the majority of Republicans and voters not affiliated with either of the two parties remain opposed. But while GOP voters and unaffiliateds feel strongly that the law will increase costs and the deficit and hurt the quality of care, Democrats have noticeably mixed feelings on these three questions.

The Political Class is even more supportive of the new law than Democrats are. Seventy-four percent (74%) of Mainstream voters support repeal, but 83% of the Political Class are opposed to it.

Most Political Class voters also believe the health care law will lower costs and improve quality. The majority of those in the Mainstream disagree on both counts. The Political Class is more ambivalent about the law’s impact on the deficit, while 73% of Mainstream voters think it will increase the deficit.

Although the Congressional Budget Office claims repealing the health care law will increase the federal budget deficit, a plurality of voters disagrees with that assessment. At the same time, most voters feel free market competition will do more to cut health care costs than government regulation.

More than half the states are challenging the constitutionality of the new federal health care law in court, many focusing on the requirement that every American must have health insurance. More voters than ever oppose that requirement and think states should have the right to opt out of some or all of the health care law.

A federal judge in Florida has ruled that the entire health care law is unconstitutional, and many expect the fate of the current law to be decided in the U.S. Supreme Court. Scott Rasmussen explains in a recent analysis how a negative Supreme Court ruling on President Obama’s number one legislative achievement may actually benefit him in the 2012 election.

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[Danno 1,228]

As peoples health insurance cost climbs, support will dwindle even more.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

So if the government takes control of something people expect costs to rise and quality to go down? Really?

[luckytxn 2,264]

So if the government takes control of something people expect costs to rise and quality to go down? Really?

There are actually many morons that believe this.

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

As peoples health insurance cost climbs, support will dwindle even more.

Pssst.

That was going to happen anyway............

[Danno 1,228]

Pssst.

That was going to happen anyway............

Now thats an original!

Usually when a Liberal solution results in utter failure the line is...."It would have been even worse" had we not

a. started a whole nuther entitlement program

b.Raised taxes to "invest" in the problem.

c.Drove the country further in debt spending on another big gov solution.

d.given up some of our rights for the "common good".