Americans Want a Health Bill Both Parties Can Like

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U.S. adults -- by a margin of 79 percent to 20 percent -- say they want Congress to pass a health care overhaul plan that wins support from both Democrats and Republicans, according to an Associated Press-GfK.

If the two political parties can't reach agreement, two-thirds of the people responding to the poll said they should keep negotiating until they do.

That said, adults in this country seems less than lukewarm about what they've seen proposed so far to fix the nation's system of health insurance and medical care, with 34 percent saying they support what they have seen and while 49 percent oppose the proposed plans.

And they are evenly divided over whether the Congress should keep working along the lines they've laid out to pass something by the end of the year (39 percent) or to scrap what's been done and start over (42 percent).

The poll was based on telephone interviews with 1,001 adults nationwide and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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