Sixty-two percent of voters support President Obama's push for a major overhaul of the health care system with 38 percent of those in the category of "strongly supporting" such action, according to a Diageo/Hotline poll conducted June 4-7.
The most solid backing for action comes from Democrats who want big changes in health care by 87 percent to 7 percent followed by independents who favor it 64 percent to 28 percent. Republicans oppose it 52 percent to 35 percent.
However, those in favor of a health care overhaul have different priorities. Forty-nine percent of voters want to focus on controlling the cost of health care while 35 percent say the priority should be expanding coverage for Americans without health insurance.
One of the proposals on ways to pay for a health care overhaul that gets a big thumbs-down is taxing health benefits. That's opposed by 68 percent of voters while 26 percent support it. (See Adriel Bettelheim's CQ Politics piece today on the tough sell Obama is likely to have on the question of how to handle the costs of his proposals).
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