Table 18.
Approval of Government Offering a Government-Administrated Healthcare Insurance Option
ABC/WP: “Would you support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans? (If Support/Oppose, ask:) Do you feel that way strongly or somewhat?”
| 6/18/09–6/21/09a | 8/13/09–8/17/09a | 9/10/09– 9/12/09 |
10/15/09–10/18/09 | 11/12/09–11/15/09 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | |
| Support strongly | – | – | 33 | 36 | 34 |
| Support somewhat/Support | 62 | 52 | 22 | 21 | 19 |
| Oppose somewhat/Oppose | 33 | 46 | 11 | 9 | 12 |
| Oppose strongly | – | – | 31 | 31 | 32 |
| No opinion | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| N | 1,001 | 1,001 | 1,007 | 1,004 | 1,001 |
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