CNN Poll: Majority oppose individual mandate

CNN ^ | June 9th, 2011

[george76]

As a federal appeals court hears a lawsuit against the new health care law, a new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans oppose the provision in the measure that mandates heath insurance coverage.

According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Thursday, by a 54 to 44 percent margin, the public opposes the individual mandate in the law, which is scheduled to take effect in the next few years.

"Most Americans continue to dislike the idea of the federal government requiring all Americans to have health insurance," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Opposition to the idea comes mostly from older Americans and men; not surprisingly, eight in ten Republicans also oppose it."

President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law last spring, after a year and a half of fierce debate in Congress and in town halls across the country. The measure passed both the House and Senate mostly along party lines.

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The main issue was the law's so-called individual mandate, the requirement that most Americans purchase health insurance by 2014 or face severe financial penalties.

[arderkrag]

The poll indicates that 56 percent oppose the new health care law, with 39 percent in support of the measure. But about one in four opponents of the bill dislike it because it did not go far enough. Fewer than four in ten Americans oppose the new law because it is too liberal.

Dear CNN: Not buying it. Thanks, Ard.

[Terry Mross]

I buy it. They could care less about 56% being against it. Why? Because there’s no one in congress representing that 56%.

[Valpal1]

But about one in four opponents of the bill dislike it because it did not go far enough.

These are the ones that want a fully socialized single payer system. They want "free" healthcare paid for by the taxpayer.

[woofer]

Shouldn't that read "CNN Poll: Majority still oppose individual mandate"

I mean, what has changed?

[Cheerio]

We are just too stupid to know a good thing when the boy king and his RATS "give" it to us...... /sarc

Schumer: The People Will Love Obamacare Once they Understand it
March 28, 2010

[PGalt]

Let’s call it what it is. TOTALITARIAN MANDATE.

Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitaraians.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks george76.

That didn’t stop the majority from voting for him in the first place, now did it?!? It’s a fact that the majority has supported the Demwit candidate for president twelve times in the last century!!!

/satireoff