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Do you think it will pass?
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View: Poll: Americans Doubtful Health Overhaul Will Pass
Source: Prescriptions: NYTimes.com
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Poll: Americans Doubtful Health Overhaul Will Pass
February 3, 2010, 6:45 pm
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Most Americans think health care legislation is doomed, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. But a growing, if still small, percentage of people are becoming more optimistic that it may pass.
In the survey, conducted from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, 60 percent of those polled said they thought health care legislation would not pass this year. That is fewer than the 67 percent who said just after a special Senate election last month in Massachusetts that health care would not pass.
Among those who have been following the debate closely, there was even a stronger sign of optimism. Right after the Massachusetts election, only 23 percent of that group thought the legislation would pass. Last week, 35 percent said it would pass.
Still, the results are a stark reversal from mid-January, when 57 percent of all respondents said they thought legislation would pass this year and 33 percent said it would not.
Hopes for the legislation’s passage were highest in late December, when the Senate finally passed its health care bill. Those hopes stayed relatively high until Jan. 19, when Scott Brown, a Republican, won the Senate seat long held by Edward M. Kennedy. Mr. Brown’s election deprives Democrats of their supermajority in the Senate, and he has vowed to oppose health care legislation.
After the election, the percentage of those who thought health care would pass this year plunged to 27 percent.
The poll of 1,020 adults throughout the country had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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I don't think it will pass. I never thought it would pass. I figured it was a good chance to happen, but I see too many issues for it to pass as it was written.
I'm all for insurance reform and cost controls of some sort.
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