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Newsweek Poll: Americans Still Favor Public Option, Still Oppose Excise Tax

By Big Tent Democrat

Newsweek poll:

Creating a government-administered public health insurance option to compete with private plans
50 APPROVE 42 OPPOSE 8 DK

Imposing a tax on insurers who offer the most expensive health plans, the so-called Cadillac plans, to help pay for health care reform
34 APPROVE 55 DISAPPROVE 11 DK

To be clear, this is the lowest approval for the public option I have seen. Perhaps because it was perceived as dead. No party breakdowns on that finding. But the excise tax has always polled badly and will continue to. There was a good reason Obama pilloried McCain's plan to tax health insurance plans - because it is a terribly unpopular idea.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 20, 2010 (boomark / email).