55% support the public option, 41% oppose (new CNN poll)

Remember that recent WSJ poll whose results were bad for the public option?

Well, this teaches us not to rely solely one one poll:

Now thinking specifically about the health insurance plans available to most Americans, would you favor or oppose creating a public health insurance option administered by the federal government that would compete with plans offered by private health insurance companies?

55% Favor
41% Oppose

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/us_health_care_cnn_82830.php

You just can't keep a good idea down.

Full questionnaire here: http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/08/04/rel11b.pdf

:)

are opposing Obama on health care.

ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Aug. 13-17, 2009. N=1,001 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.5 (for all adults).


"Would you support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans?"

Support Oppose Unsure

8/13-17/09
52 46 2

6/18-21/09
62 33 5


Edited to add links...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/polls/

http://pollingreport.com/health.htm

before the lies and after the lies.

after June people could read the bills and the CBO scores.

edit to add


http://masbury.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/nytimes-poll-72-of-americans-favor-public-option-in-healthcare/


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Monte Asbury’s blog
NYTimes Poll: 72% of Americans favor Public Option in healthcare
with 3 comments

Americans overwhelmingly want a government-administered insurance plan that would compete with private insurers.

Will Congress deliver? Or will it cave to Big Insurance and pro-industry lawmakers?

and as stated above that was also before the proposed bills and CBO estimates were released.

You can see the exact wording of the question here...
http://documents.nytimes.com/latest-new-york-times-cbs-news-poll-on-health#p=6

The Power of the Word Medicare -
Posted by slipslidingaway in General Discussion
Fri Aug 21st 2009, 07:23 PM

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/slipslidingaway/80

When the word Medicare is used in the various polls, the number of people who favor the plan automatically jumps, it makes no difference if the question relates to the public option or a national insurance system such as single-payer...the word "Medicare" has a favorable connotation.

The Kaiser Health Tracking poll is one of the few recent polls that asks about a single-payer plan or government run insurance plan for all, many of the polls leave SP out altogether and that includes the widely cited poll from June saying that 72% of people want a public option.

What Kaiser did, at times, was half sample certain questions.

For instance if they were sampling 1200 people, they would ask about a public plan "like Medicare" to only half of the people. The other half they would leave out the word "Medicare" and the support for a public plan, or single-payer, would drop.

Now their August poll has just been released and they did not half sample the public option or single-payer questions, what they did do is include the word "Medicare" when asking about the public option and exclude it from the question about single-payer, guess what happened to the single-payer poll...it dropped.

In addition to the charts that they post, they also post the questions with the numbers listed for each question from prior polls. You would think there might be consistency in listing prior numbers, but that is not what they did with the August list, they posted the higher number for the public option and the lower number for SP.

The devil is in the details.