Not Much Excitement for Congress' Health Care Bills

August 16, 2009 4:51 PM | | Comments (0)

The health care overhaul plans wending their way through Congress are not generating much enthusiam among the electorate according to a Rasmussen Reports survey, which found 54 percent say no health care overhaul passed by Congress this year would be the better option.

The survey, conducted Aug. 13-14, showed 35 percent of Americans say passing a bill would be better than not passing any health care overhaul legislation this year.

Most voters do not oppose health care overhaul, the survey said, but the results highlight the level of concern about the specific proposals that congressional Democrats have approved in a series of committees. To this point, there has been no Republican support for the legislative effort, although the Senate Finance Committee is still working toward a bipartisan solution.

Voters who earn less than $20,000 a year were evenly divided but a majority of all other voters would prefer no action. Middle income voters, those who earn from $40,000 to $75,000 a year, were most strongly in favor of taking no action.

A plurality of voters under age 30 said passage of the congressional legislation is better. A majority of adults over 30 take the opposite view.

Cost, not universal coverage, was the top priority cited by most voters and 54 percent favor middle class tax cuts over new spending on health care.

The survey of 1,000 voters had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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