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Toplines - Health Care I - May 15-16, 2009

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Daily Snapshot

National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted May 15-16, 2009

By Rasmussen Reports

1* Should health care be made available free to all Americans?

42% Yes
44% No
14% Not sure

2* Suppose you were asked to vote on a plan that made healthcare free to all Americans but requires everyone with insurance to change their coverage and join a program administered by the government? Would you favor or oppose that plan?

27% Favor
60% Oppose
13% Not sure

3* Suppose that to make healthcare free to all Americans you would have to change from your current insurance coverage to a program administered by the government. Would your own health insurance get better or worse?

18% Better

53% Worse

12% Stay the same

17% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.