51% favor Obama’s health care plan

A CNN poll found that fifty-one percent of people surveyed say they favor the president’s health care plan, with 45 percent opposed. [CNN]

Most people worry that their health care costs would go up if the administration’s proposals passed and only one in five thinks that his or her families would be better off under the Obama plan.

Obama’s plan calls for a government-run health insurance program to compete with private insurers.

55 percent think the U.S. health care system is in need of a great deal of reform, with four in 10 saying only some reform is needed.

Nearly half of those questioned have more trust in the president than in congressional Republicans to handle health care overhaul, with 38 percent backing congressional Republicans over Obama.

A government-run health insurance program is one of the most contentious features of the Obama health reform proposals, with Republicans suggesting that such a plan could force health care providers out of business, forcing Americans to switch doctors. The poll indicates such arguments may not be working.

About one in four say costs would remain the same. And only one in five says his or her family would be better off if the president’s plan became law, with 35 percent saying they would be worse off, and 44 percent saying they would fare about the same.

Almost none of the above squares with other material I read. See Wall Street Run Healthcare System and Nevadans Demonstrate for Health Care Reform; Wellpoint fights back.

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