Table 4.
Approval of Creating a Public Healthcare Insurance Option
CBS/NYT: “On another subject, do you think the federal government should guarantee health insurance for all Americans, or isn’t this the responsibility of the federal government?”
| 7/13/00– 7/16/00 |
1/20/06–1/25/06 | 2/23/07–2/27/07 | 3/12/09–3/16/09 | 6/12/09–6/16/09 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | ||||||
| Guarantee insurance/Should guarantee | 62 | 62 | 64 | 62 | 64 | |||||
| Not responsibility | 29 | 31 | 27 | 30 | 30 | |||||
| Don’t know/No answer | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | |||||
| N | 954 | 1,229 | 1,281 | 1,142 | 895 | |||||
| 7/24/09–7/28/09 | 9/19/09–9/23/09 | |||||||||
| % | % | |||||||||
| Guarantee insurance/Should guarantee | 55 | 51 | ||||||||
| Not responsibility | 38 | 40 | ||||||||
| Don’t know/No answer | 7 | 9 | ||||||||
| N | 1,050 | 1,042 |