Skeptical Voters Are Roughly Divided on Health Care Issue

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Voters are roughly split on whether they support or oppose the proposed health care overhaul being pushed by Democrats but the biggest chunk among them are the 41 percent who put themselves in the "strongly oppose" category, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted July 26-27.

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Overall, those polled don't like what they know about the proposed overhaul by 49 percent to 47 percent, with a 3 point margin of error. Among those, 25 percent strongly favor a change, 22 percent are "somewhat" in support and the negatives are the 41 percent "strongly" opposed and 8 percent somewhat opposed.

Fifty percent believe the quality of health care will get worse under an overhaul, 23 percent say it will get better and 23 percent expect it to be about the same. Fifty-three percent believe costs will go up, 23 percent say costs will go down and 18 percent say they will remain the same.

That being said, 49 percent believe it is very or somewhat likely a health care package will pass this year compared to 39 percent who don't believe that. Twelve percent are undecided.

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