Did you read what I wrote at all. If you take those numbers at face value without asking any more questions you might assume we don't want a single payer system. However, if you ask the next question, you'll find, as I stated earlier, a fair number of those who want it repealed want the government to go further, and are upset because it doesn't go far enough. We are almost divided into thirds on this. 1/3 want less, 1/3 like it as it is, and 1/3 want the government to go further. That is being divided.
THE DEMAND FOR MORE AMBITIOUS HEALTH CARE REFORM.... The new CNN poll on the Affordable Care Act, celebrating its first anniversary today, is already proving to be popular on the right. And if one only looks at the first two paragraphs, it's easy to see why.
One year after President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law, a new national poll indicates that attitudes toward the plan have not budged.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday, on the one year anniversary of the signing of the law, 37 percent of Americans support the measure, with 59 percent opposed. That's basically unchanged from last March, when 39 percent supported the law and 59 percent opposed the measure.
But what this neglects to mention is the relevant detail -- there's quite a disagreement within that 59% majority.
In fact, the top line is pretty misleading. While 37% support the law, another 13% want the Affordable Care Act to go further, be more ambitious, and offer more progressive reforms.
In other words, 50% of Americans support the law or want it to be more liberal.
The Washington Monthly
On the big abstract ideological question about support for the health reform law, the voters split down the middle: 48 percent say they support repeal and 47 percent say they want the reform law to stay the same or be expanded. Some mandate.
John Bouman: Americans Want Health Care Reform to Go Forward
[...] The poll found that about four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the health care system, regardless of whether they support the law, oppose it or remain neutral. On the other side, about one in five say they oppose the law because they think the federal government should not be involved in health care at all.
AP Poll: Majority of Americans Want Health Care Law To Do More | Crooks and Liars
Now that's just the first few links of a search. But if you don't know this by now, you're really not listening and are instead trying to make numbers say something they are not.
