Richard Tafoya
Apr 22nd, 2009, 01:15 PM
CBS News (4/6/09):
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4923731.shtml
A majority of Americans would pay higher taxes if it meant health insurance for everyone, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll – though many worry that the nation’s economy will suffer if the government were to offer universal health care.
The poll also finds that health care is a major domestic concern for Americans, second only to the economy.
Fifty-seven percent of those polled say they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to provide all Americans with health care coverage. While seventy three percent of Democrats favor a tax increase to fund coverage, only twenty-nine percent of Republicans back such a move.
Asked which domestic policy area the president and the Congress should focus on other than the economy, thirty-five percent said health care, the top choice. The second most popular choice was education at twenty-two percent, followed by social security at seventeen percent and energy at fifteen percent.
A majority of those surveyed say that providing health insurance for the uninsured is a more serious problem than keeping health care costs down, though by a narrower margin than two years ago.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4923731.shtml
A majority of Americans would pay higher taxes if it meant health insurance for everyone, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll – though many worry that the nation’s economy will suffer if the government were to offer universal health care.
The poll also finds that health care is a major domestic concern for Americans, second only to the economy.
Fifty-seven percent of those polled say they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to provide all Americans with health care coverage. While seventy three percent of Democrats favor a tax increase to fund coverage, only twenty-nine percent of Republicans back such a move.
Asked which domestic policy area the president and the Congress should focus on other than the economy, thirty-five percent said health care, the top choice. The second most popular choice was education at twenty-two percent, followed by social security at seventeen percent and energy at fifteen percent.
A majority of those surveyed say that providing health insurance for the uninsured is a more serious problem than keeping health care costs down, though by a narrower margin than two years ago.