Poll: More Than Half of Americans Say Health Reform Is Not Worth Increasing the Deficit

From CNSNews.com:

Support for President Obama's health care reform sank lower in December than it dipped in August, after a summer of opposition at town halls and tea party gatherings across the country.

A Quinnipiac University poll released last week, which measured the views of likely voters on a range of current events, found that fewer Americans approve of how the president is handling the issue; fewer believe health care reform is important enough to increase the deficit; and fewer believe President Obama will be able to make the bill deficit-neutral, than when the same questions were asked on Aug. 5.

Quinnipiac asked voters: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling health care?"

Obama saw 46 percent approval from voters in the beginning of July, but as members of the House of Representatives went home for August recess, approval dipped to just 39 percent on Aug. 5. After a slight rebound in the fall, Obama’s approval rating on the issue crept further down to 38 percent.

Over the same period, those who disapproved of the president's handling of health care grew in ranks from 42 percent in July to 52 percent in August to 56 percent in the December poll. Meanwhile, the number of respondents who remained unsure shrank by more than half from 13 percent to just 6 percent.

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