Plenty of Sound, Fury in Health-Care Debate. How Significant?

Published On: October 29th, 2009

Poll For all the hollering over health care in the past few months, public opinion didn’t change much, according to the latest WSJ/NBC poll. Keep in mind that the margin of error for the is plus or minus 3.1%.

This month, 43% of respondents said they approve of the job President Obama is doing on “the issue of health care reform,” and 48% said they disapprove. In July, 41% said they approved and 46% disapproved.

Opinion is also static on how Republicans in Congress are handling health care reform — in October, 23% of people approved and 64% disapproved, compared with 21% and 62%, respectively, in August. (The question wasn’t asked in July).

As of October, 48% of people said they’d favor creating a federally backed health insurance plan, and 42% said they’d oppose doing so; in July, 46% were in favor and 44% were opposed.

When the question of the public option was presented in a somewhat different way, people were more supportive of the idea — but overall, opinion was still pretty static. In June, 76% of people said it was “extremely” or “quite” important important to give people a choice between public and private health insurance plans; 20% of people said it was “not all that” or “not at all” important. In October, 72% of people said it was “extremely” or “quite” important, and 23% of people said it was “not all that” or “not at all” important.”

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