McClatchy-Marist Poll: Americans Don't Want to Repeal What's In The Health Care Reform Law
The Washington Post's Greg Sargent summarizes a new McClatchy-Marist poll:
Sizable majorities don't want repeal of the provisions that allow people up to age 26 to stay on their parents' plans, prevent discrimination against people with preexisting conditions, and close the prescription drug "donut hole." What's more, overall, the poll finds just as many want the law to be expanded to do more (35 percent) as want repeal (33 percent).
Now, the poll does find serious hostility to the individual mandate, with 65 percent agreeing with the widely held GOP position that it's unconstitutional to require people to buy health insurance. In other words, you'll likely see Republicans making a great deal of noise about the individual mandate -- denouncing it as "tyranny," joining lawsuits to overturn it, and so forth -- while quietly refraining from any genuine efforts to succeed at gutting or watering down the law's popular provisions.
Also in the poll: "A majority of registered voters nationally -- 51% -- think the tax cuts should be extended only for the middle class but not for the top two percent, households earning $250,000 or more. 45% believe the tax breaks should be applied to everyone including the top two percent, and 4% are unsure."
