Poll: Most Americans Remain Against Health Care Overhaul

cbsnews.com ^ | April 2, 2010 | Stephanie Condon

[Free ThinkerNY]

The public is increasingly skeptical of the health care reform bill signed into law last week, a new CBS News poll shows.

More Americans now disapprove of the legislation, and many expect their costs to rise and the quality of their care to worsen; few expect the reforms to help them.

President Obama has continued to tour the country to stump for his new set of reforms. This week he went to Portland, Maine, where he told people it will take more than a week for the benefits of reform to become apparent.

The poll, conducted March 29 through April 1, found that so far the president's efforts to build up support for the bill appear to be ineffective.

Fifty-three percent of Americans say they disapprove of the new reforms, including 39 percent who say they disapprove strongly. In the days before the bill passed the House, 37 percent said they approved and 48 percent disapproved.

Republicans and independents remain opposed to the reforms, and support has dropped some among Democrats. Now 52 percent of Democrats approve of the new reforms, a drop from 60 percent just before the bill was passed by Congress.

And less than one in five Americans thinks the new health care reforms will help them personally - unchanged since before the vote in Congress. Thirty-six percent think the new reforms will hurt them, while 39 percent think they will have little effect.

There are also some doubts about the specific ways in which Americans expect the reforms will affect them. Just over half think the new health care reforms will increase their health care costs, and 39 percent think the quality of their health care will get worse.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[B4Ranch]

I wholeheartedly agree! I am fed up RINO’s and Dims

[Steely Tom]

Most Americans Remain Against Health Care Overhaul

Well then I guess we'll just have to postpone the elections until we see a little attitude adjustment out there.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sorry SeeBS but “most Americans” aren’t all the happy about having communism rammed down their throats with the heel of a jackboot.

[JoSixChip]

Didn’t clinton predict the poll numbers would go up 10 points the day after it passed?

[juggernaut]

Maybe they should put a little ice on that.

[DakotaGator]

...Obama has continued to tour the country to stump for his new set of reforms...where he told people it will take more than a week for the benefits of reform to become apparent.

It will take more than eternity for "the benefits of reform to become apparent." Because there aren't any!

[SmokingJoe]

So much for all these 0bama campaign style stops across the country to sell 0bamacare. The more 0bama tries to sell this lemon, the more unpopular it gets. For once, Dan rather was right.

“Rather: Obama “couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him a state trooper to flag down the traffic”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-xqiG9LOc&feature=player_embedded

[VRWC For Truth]

[Recovering_Democrat]

Hussein is a joke.

America is experiencing BIG TIME voter remorse.

But the media are begging to lick his hind end.

[Nervous Tick]

You know, dontcha, that they’re going to run these inane polls, varying the methodology, until they get results they like.

Then they will quit polling rather abruptly.

[BillyBoy]

Meanwhile, more and more Vichy RINOs like our "Republican" U.S. Senate nominee in Illinois, Mark Kirk, are having "second thoughts" about their pledge to "lead the effort" to repeal it. Apparently he thinks siding with the Dems and against the vast majority of voters will make him "more electable" (sorta like his adamant support for partial birth abortion will get "social moderates" to love him)

RINO Mark Kirk softens on health care repeal

How many more RINOs have to go down in flames before freepers stop drinking the mainstream media kool-aid that running as a Dem enabler makes one "more electable" in states that aren't solidly Republican?

[B4Ranch]

Clinton was hoping he could get Hillary in the seat.

[blackbart.223]

"Meanwhile, more and more Vichy RINOs like our "Republican" U.S. Senate nominee in Illinois, Mark Kirk, are having "second thoughts" about their pledge to "lead the effort" to repeal it.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. We no longer have any reason to support RINOs.

[freekitty]

Actually only a tiny percentage are for it. That’s the politicians and the people they paid to support it(not sure they are really for it).

A vast majority of people are totally against it and want it totally wiped clean.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Tar! Feathers!

[HiTech RedNeck]

The tiny handful of serendipitously good things in this otherwise barfulous bill can always be copied into a new bill.

[SmartInsight]

Only 32% approve and 53% disapprove!

"Repeal, replace" will be a good slogan for the GOP this November.

[presently no screen name]

Repeal ZeroCare!

[Canedawg]

they will quit polling rather abruptly.

I believe Rahm and Bozoboy are currently working on an EO banning polls.