Table 1.

Support for Universal Health Care Plan that Replaces Premiums and Out-of-Pocket Expenses with Doubled or Tripled Income Taxes (n = 402)

	Percentage
Definitely vote for it	21.9
Probably vote for it	40.5
Probably vote against it	9.4
Definitely vote against it	20.8
Not sure	7.4
Total	100.0

These are responses to the following question: “Oregon households and businesses currently spend over 16 billion dollars a year on health care. The total amount raised by Oregon’s income tax is about 6 billion dollars. This means that funding universal health care for everyone in Oregon would require an additional health care tax of two to three times as much as you pay in state income tax. However, under this plan, a typical household would pay less for the new tax than they currently pay in total for premiums and health care expenses. And everyone in the state would have health care. People with employer-paid health care would pay less tax because employers who currently pay for insurance premiums would be required to pay part of the health care tax for their employees. As things stand today, would you be inclined to: Definitely vote for such a proposal; Probably vote for it; Probably vote against it; Definitely vote against such a proposal?”